Habakkuk 2
Be a Faithful Watchman!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, September 30.
One of my favorite promises of God is Psalm 46:10, “Cease striving [Be still] and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” This promise was given in a more peaceful time than Habakkuk’s historical context, yet our faith calls us to believe that not a single word of God will fail, regardless of the circumstances. Even though the Babylonian threat was looming over Judah, we should not be surprised that the prophet yoked himself with the great prophetic tradition of Isaiah 62:6-7 (cf. Jeremiah 6:17; Ezekiel 3:17), by describing himself as a watchman on the wall in Habakkuk 2:1-3:
I will stand on my guard post and station myself on the rampart; and I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, and how I may reply when I am reproved. Then the Lord answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay. Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith.”
The power of the prophet was not found within himself, but in the revelation given to him by God. Though Israel had been visibly decimated at the hands of the Assyrians and there was no known escape for Judah from the Babylonians, God assured His people of what they could not see through His faithful watchman in Habakkuk 2:20, “But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him.”
God bless you!
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