SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/31/2016
10:06 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Basis
Cause
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Habakkuk 1:4
Message of
the verses: “Therefore the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For
the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore justice comes out perverted.” “4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and
justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is
perverted (NIV).”
Now as mentioned in an earlier SD on the book of
Habakkuk Judah was sinning greatly, and so Habakkuk was actually confronting
God telling Him of the nations sins, and when we look at verse four we are in
that conversation that Habakkuk is having with God. In verse four we see as our focus indicates, the
cause of their problem. The leaders of
Judah were the ones sinning as they were not keeping the law of God, and so one
might say that if the leaders were not keeping the law why should all the
people keep it?
A number of years ago we had a President in our
country who was committing adultery while serving as President and he denied it
because of the particular kind of the kind of sex that he was having with the
woman in question. The results of this
was that men felt that they could do the same thing he was doing and not think
they were doing anything wrong. The
people began to act like their leaders, and so when the leaders are doing
things wrong it can move on down to the people they are suppose to be
governing. Similar things were happening
in Judah as they were breaking God’s Law and this is what got Habakkuk all
worked up, and I might say rightly worked up.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “The rich exploited the poor and escaped punishment
by bribing the officials. The law was
either ignored or twisted, and nobody seemed to care. The courts were crooked, officials were
interested only in money, and the admonition in Exodus 23:6-8 was completely
unheeded.” “6 “You shall not pervert the
justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. 7 “Keep far from a false
charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit
the guilty. 8 “You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted
and subverts the cause of the just (Exodus 23:6-8).”
1/31/2016 10:20 PM
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