SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/5/2016
12:13 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Helplessness of the People
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Habakkuk
1:14-15
Message of
the verses: “14 Why have You made men like the fish of
the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them? 15 The Chaldeans bring
all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them
together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.”
In our last two SD’s from the book of Habakkuk we
saw that Habakkuk was using the argument with God that He was a holy God, and
therefore should not allow the Chaldeans, who were wickeder than the children
of Israel were to attack them. Now in
this SD we see that he talks about the helplessness of the children of Israel
to try and defeat the Chaldeans. Now as
I was listening to my Bible recording this morning from the book of Deuteronomy
I saw in there a part of the covenant that God had made with Israel and He
stated that if they would follow the covenant that God made with them with all
of their heart then the Lord would allow them to defeat more powerful nations
than they were, but if they sinned and did not follow the covenant then the
nations around them would defeat them which is what we are seeing as we read
from the pages of the OT.
Habakkuk is saying to the Lord that Judah did not
have a chance against the Babylonians as they would be like fish in a net as
they were being captured, and we know that life was cheap for the Babylonians
especially the people that they would capture from their wars.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes “How could God allow His weak
people to be invaded by such a heartless and ruthless nation? Of course, the false prophets in Judah were
saying, ‘It can’t happen here’ (see Jer. 6:14; 8:11; 14:13ff), but their blind
optimism would soon be exposed as lies.
For forty years, the Prophet Jeremiah warned the people of Judah and
begged them to turn back to God, but they refused to listen. What Judah needed wasn’t great military
strength but obedient faith in God.”
This is exactly what is needed in our country at this time in our
history.
2/5/2016
12:28 AM
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