Fear, your real fears, are valid… due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is moving across the world, leaving fear, illness and death in its path.
The virus has reached its peak in some countries, but in most countries it’s surge has not yet happened. Countries are working hard to limit the effects of this dangerous virus. Countries are working together and certainly, different political parties within these countries are working together. (How sad it takes a pandemic for people to work together.)
Fear, palpable fear, coursed through Habakkuk because he knew what was coming. A super power, who had not yet overcome the great Assyrian empire, was waiting in the wings.
Habakkuk was a prophet of the living God. He lived in perilous times, for God’s judgment was about to fall on Jerusalem and Judah for turning from Him to worship other gods.
What did Habakkuk write?|
Habakkuk 3:16 “I heard and my inward parts trembled,
At the sound my lips quivered.
Decay enters my bones.
And in my place I tremble.
Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,
For the people to arise who will invade us,”
Habakkuk declared “I heard and my inward parts trembled…” “Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, For the people to arise who will invade us.”
Take these same words and turn them into our circumstances today… “We hear of the virus and our physical bodies are affected from fear. We must wait quietly for the day of distress when the virus reaches its peak and begins the decline. It’s coming…
But, follower of Christ! We have to wait it out, with the rest of the world… BUT while we are waiting we can be exercising our faith in the living God.
We worship the living God. Our hope is in Him!
“Make me know Your ways, O LORD;
Teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You I wait all the day.”
NASB Psalm 25:4-5
~ Take it to heart ~
Wait… and while waiting… turn to the living God. Yielded to His ways, Teachable in His school room, Led by His truth, Know that He is still the God of our salvation.
Wait… and while waiting…
exercise faith, your faith, in the living God