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Lord GOD is My Strength
As the pendulum of History swings
back and forth, the righteous experience times of relative peace, times of severe
persecution and the progression of either somewhere in-between. Habakkuk prophesied
in times of evil and injustice. “The law is ignored”, he said, “and justice is
never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore, justice comes
out perverted” (Habakkuk 1:4). And he asked why the LORD was putting up with
it. The LORD told Habakkuk that His judgment would surely come upon the nation.
And when it did, the righteous would have to live by faith. Though the reality
of what the judgment of God looked like troubled Habakkuk, he trusted that God
would carry him through that time of distress. He prayed, “Though the fig tree
should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the
olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be
cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in
the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength
and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet and makes me walk on my high places”.
Dear Father, thank You for being a God of justice and vindicating the cause of
the oppressed. May we have faith like Habakkuk in the times of judgment and distress.
May we trust in you to carry us through whatever storms we encounter. And may
we exalt in You and rejoice in You – the God of our Salvation.
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