We Shall Not Die

Lets read from the scriptures..

Source

Bible Reading: Habakkuk 1: 12–17 (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®. Copyright © 2016 by Crossway Bibles.)

1. Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.

2. You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

3. You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

4. He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.

5. Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.

6. Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?

Word for Today:
Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof._– v. 12.

Inspiring Commentary:

Habakkuk could not understand how God could use Babylon as the instrument of judgement against a nation more righteous than they were (v. 13). He wondered why God chose to remain silent at such a time, being a righteous God. The truth about life both for the now and the future is that, we will never be able to fully understand God and His ways. He ceases to be God the day any human fully understands Him.

The prophet however expressed confidence in God's ability to preserve lives when he declared: "we shall not die". He trusted God to be able to preserve the righteous and deliver them from death when the instruments of judgment eventually arrives. As the scripture equally confirms, God knows how to deliver the righteous from evil.

With threats and counter threats being issued here and there in our society, God's people should have only one consolation – that God knows how to deliver the righteous. Israel as a nation is still there today only because God is a covenant keeping God. He will also keep you by the power of the blood of the new covenant in Christ Jesus.

Prayer

May your people find refuge in you our God, when trouble comes.