SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/3/2016
9:28 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 of The
Holiness of God
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Habakkuk
1:12-13
Message of
the verses: “12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my
God, my Holy One? We will not die. You, O LORD, have appointed them to judge;
And You, O Rock, have established them to correct. 13 Your eyes are too pure to
approve evil, And You cannot look on wickedness with favor. Why do You look
with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked
swallow up Those more righteous than they?”
We have been looking at theology lessons from this
section of Scripture, and the first lesson comes from the holiness of God as we
looked at in our last SD. Habakkuk also
reminds God that He is eternal for our second theology lesson. Now because God
is eternal He knows the end from the beginning and because of that fact God
could not be caught by surprise.
Habakkuk also calls God “O Rock,” which shows the all powerfulness of
God. Dr. Wiersbe writes “As a holy God,
He couldn’t look with approval on sin (Hab. 1:13); yet He was ‘tolerant’ of sin
in the land of Judah and ‘silent’ as the Babylonians prepared to swallow up His
people! Habakkuk wanted God to say
something and do something, but God was silent and seemingly inactive.”
Habakkuk was living in Judah throughout all of the sinfulness
that the nation was committing, and because he loved God, and knew that God did
not approve of what was going on, he did not approve of it either. The punishment that God was going to inflict
upon Judah by using the ruthless nation of Babylon would affect him personally,
and it was also affecting his walk with the Lord as it concerned him
greatly. Now pay attention to this next
quote from Warren Wiersbe: “But
wrestling with these challenges is the only way for our ‘faith muscles’ to
grow. To avoid tough questions or to
settle for half-truths and superficial pat answers is to remain immature, but
to face questions honestly and talk them through with the Lord is to grow in
grace and in the knowledge of Christ (2 Peter 3:18).”
Now for the end note after this quote: “His question ‘Why are you silent?’ (v.13
(NIV) has been asked by both saints and sinners for centuries. Of course, God is not silent, because He
speaks through His Word to those who have ears to hear. He spoke the loudest at Calvary when His
beloved Son died on the cross; for the atonement is God’s final and complete
answer to the sins of the world. Because
of the cross, God is both ‘just and justifier’ (Rom. 3:26). He has both upheld
His holy law and manifested His loving heart.
Sin has been judged and the way has been opened for sinners to become
the children of God. Nobody can complain
about such a wise and loving answer!”
2/3/2016 9:51 PM
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