Getting God's Message Getting God's Message Program Transcripts
Pastor Lud Golz
Pastor Lud Golz

About the Program | Meet Pastor Golz | Contact Information | Fellowship Bible Church | Christian Resources | Donations

  Home | Transcript Archive | January | January 21, 2013

Monday, January 21, 2013

We've been amplifying the first point in our outline with what we found in the book of Habakkuk. He had an authentic personal relationship with God. This is seen in their honest two way communication described in the book. 

Habakkuk needed to understand that God is not limited to what he knew about God. God’s thoughts and ways are so far above what Habakkuk knew up to this point. He had to recognize these differences and accept them. He acknowledged God’s sovereignty and justice, and then appealed to His mercy.
 
Listen to his prayer in Habakkuk 3:2: “Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.” 
 
He knew God’s people deserved what they were going to experience. God is slow to anger or wrath, but beyond a certain point He has to act in order to be true to all that He is. But all that He is includes, He is merciful. So Habakkuk pleads his case on that basis. 
 
Having concluded that judgment is inevitable He pleads for mercy as he waits “patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us” (Habakkuk 3:16). But as he waited with legs trembling, watching devastation take place, leaving the land desolate, he determined by faith to rejoice in the Lord…be joyful in God, his Savior. He was confident that the Sovereign Lord was his strength. He believed God would make his feet like the feet of a deer, and enable him to go on the heights (Habakkuk 3:18-19). 
 
What a picture of an authentic personal relationship with God. Nothing could break their bond.
 

Getting God's Message with Lud Golz, P.O. Box 167, Novelty, Ohio 44072

design by Klein Studios, Inc.