Year 6, Day 252: Habakkuk 1

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Discipleship Focus: Guidance

• Guidance: God grants us His guidance.  Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation.  Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen.  Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.

The book of Habakkuk is an unsung hero of a book in the Old Testament.  In this book, we see a man come to God and ask a legitimate question without really offending God.  If you have ever wondered how to do this, read the book of Habakkuk.

Habakkuk comes to God and complains about the violence that he sees around him.  He complains about the unrighteous behavior that seems to go unpunished.  But make sure that you understand Habakkuk here.  How he can do this and not fall into judgment is because he doesn’t ever accuse God of anything.  What he does is admit his own inability to truly understand.  That is an incredibly important point to understand.  Rather than accuse God of being unjust, and thus attack His character, we should rather confess our inability to understand how our current circumstances can be occurring in the midst of His righteousness.

How does God come back to Habakkuk?  God gives him guidance.  God allows Habakkuk to see what he cannot understand.  When we accuse God, we find ourselves in judgment.  When we express our inability to understand, we get guidance from God.

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