NEWS

It has almost gotten where I don’t like to watch the news, what about you?  I have stopped reading the paper also.  It seems that everywhere we look there is bad news.  Someone at war here, someone getting hurt there, something going on everywhere.  Bad news surrounds us.  So what do many of us do when faced with bad news?  We begin to question and seek to find answers.

The book of Habakkuk is very short, however it contains very wise information.  Just like many of us Habakkuk questioned the adversity going on around Him.  He wanted to know why and he wanted answers.  What he did though was what many of us have trouble doing.  He brought his concerns straight to the Lord.  When we step back and look at the situation the only problem is with our understanding.  We should be like Habakkuk and take our issues straight to God.  We should move from doubt to faith.  We should move from questioning to His answering.

Take your problems to the Lord ask Him for help.  If you listen carefully He will answer.  At the end of the book of Habakkuk, he concludes with a prayer of triumph understanding God’s power and love. 

Habakkuk 3:16-19

New International Version (NIV)

16 

I heard and my heart pounded,
    my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
    and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
    to come on the nation invading us.

17 

Though the fig tree does not bud
    and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
    and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
    and no cattle in the stalls,

18 

yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
    I will be joyful in God my Savior.

19 

The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
    he enables me to tread on the heights.