Hab 2:1-4

Hab 2:1-4
"V1 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. V2 Then the LORD answered me and said, "Record the vision And inscribe {it} on tablets, That the one who reads it may run. V3 "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. V4 Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith."

A new year always brings about thoughts of fresh starts, but this year I’m reminded of all that the Lord has promised us that He would do. To be perfectly honest sometimes it’s hard not to think, “man another year and it still has not happened”. But it never fails when I begin to wonder and question and ask have I heard from the Lord. He speaks to me again and affirms all that he has said. Here in the second chapter of Habakkuk we have the Prophet of God questioning what God has said he would do. Many of us have come to that place where we say “How”? In the natural it’s all so impossible. However, it is not our job to figure out how but it is our job to believe… and I’m not just talking about just saying, “yeah yeah I think you can do it”, but rather putting everything we have and everything we are into him. Living our life with Christ as our provision…no back up plan! True faith is dying to self and living IN Christ. It’s not about what I can do alone, if we are trying to accomplish his plans on our own then we are not living by faith. We must always have our faith in Christ – what does that mean? It means trusting that he took care of everything for us at Calvary. When we talk about Christ and Him Crucified we are talking about trusting wholeheartedly that what he did was enough, that what he said was true…He died so we may live. It was His death that allowed us to be born again. Everything we need came through Calvary. That is why Paul said we preach Christ Crucified…

The Lord has given me many promises as well as many to Crossfire and I’m positive to you as well. And many times we will question did he really mean what he said? We to must here what the Lord said to Habakkuk… He told Him to wait… it is hard to wait it truly is. But what the Lord has spoken will come to pass but we must wait and not stop trusting in Him. The Lords promises to us are like babies, He births them within us but process takes time and at the right time the baby is born. We must allow God to put us through the process, if a mother skipped the process of pregnancy the baby would not live. And though the process may not be the best at times. It is through the process that we grow and are changed.



Chad