Have You Seen This?

Habakkuk 1:5 - "Look among the nations and watch — Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days Which you would not believe, though it were told you.  NKJV 
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• The Work Of God 

God is informing the prophet Habakkuk that He is about to "work a work" and this work that God is going to put into motion in his day will be so mind blowing that the prophet will not believe it.
 
God says, "Be utterly astounded!" The Hebrew word could also be interpreted "Be amazed, or be astonished". What are we to be astounded, amazed or astonished by? The answer is a work of God?
 
Wow!
 
How familiar does that sound? God is doing a work that blows our mind.   

• What Works Of God Would You List? 

If you were able to sit down for a one on one with God (Through a Theophany) and He allowed you to interview Him. What would your first question for Him be?
 
Of all God's works which one really blows your mind?
 
Would your question be about the creation of earth, or birth of humans, animals, stars, planets or galaxies?
 
Would it be about how He developed the human body (the eyes, ears, brain, heart, and spirit, etc)?
 
What "work of God" would you want Him to speak about and enlighten you? 

• What Work Was He Talking About With Habakkuk? 

You might find this hard to believe but the "work of God" that He was referencing to with Habakkuk was the fact that He was going to use the Chaldeans aka the Babylonians to conquer Judah aka the Southern Kingdom. This will take place in 606 BC.

God has ordained that the Chaldeans/Babylonians were His instrument to exercise judgment upon Judah. In case you don't know why God is doing this it is because of Judah worshipping the Chaldean's gods aka Baal and others.
 
Hab. 1:6-7 - For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves…."
 
This is more than Habakkuk can handle. He basically says to God, You can't do this. You can't use the Chaldeans/Babylonians for they are wicked, very wicked. Your eyes are too pure to watch the atrocities they will commit.
 
He is not wrong that they are wicked and even God says they are terrible, dreadful and arrogant people.
 
He then asks God a question we have probably all wondered about at one time or another:
 
Hab 1:13 - Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he?
 
God why do you let wicked, evil people devour the righteous? I don't understand. Why don't You get involved and put a stop to this unrighteousness.
 
I speak only for myself when I honestly admit I have asked God this same type of question that is being asked by the prophet Habakkuk.
 
God what are you doing? Why haven't You stopped this nonsense that is going on in the world?

• Does God Still Use Wicked Nations Today? 

If we believe that God doesn't change and that He is the same yesterday, today and forever then our conclusion has to be yes. God still uses the wicked to accomplish His Will.
 
However, because He uses the wicked doesn't mean we have to participate in their wickedness.
 
It is still up to Christians to be the light of the world. In Isaiah the Lord asked a question "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?"
 
The prophet Isaiah said, "Here am I. Send me."
 
If we don't like God using the wicked then the best thing we can do is live a righteous life and ask the LORD to send us. The best way I know to defeat evil is to convert them.
 
Have you seen the Lord working through you lately?
 
Think About These:
 
God does things His way because His way is always right.
 
You have no idea how many people God wants to influence through you.
 
John 11:40 - Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"  Are you seeing the Glory of God today?

Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago

Minister of God's Word