There is no real spiritual edification
that is about to be bestowed on you for what you are about to read in the next few
sentences. One of my favorite books of the Bible to pronounce is Habakkuk. I
love letting it thrust from my throat. I loved to smack the back of my tongue
against the roof of my mouth at I stress the K’s. For some reason I feel I am
German and must sound angry when I am saying it (When I was in Germany I felt every
one was always angry when they were talking; they could be saying I love you
and to me it sounds angry). You can go to Wikipedia and play the pronunciation
suggestions at the beginning of the description to see how to say it. Both
versions are correct. Now to some real spiritual edification …
In God’s response to Habakkuk in
chapter two God reveals the truth about false God’s. In a way I feel as if God is
taunting the proud, greedy, murders, and strait up sinners. God says … “What
sorrow awaits you who say to wooden idols, “wake up and save us!’ To speechless
stone images you say ‘Rise up and teach us!’ Can an idol tell you what to do?
They me be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.”
(Habakkuk 2:19 NLT)
Are we like the people in the last
days of Jerusalem? Have we put our hope in man made images and objects? Sure
they may not be idols carved of wood and stone that serve as a deity to us. But
they are physical man made object that have become our hope. Things like retirement
accounts, sports, television, the internet, alcohol, and so many more fill our
hope. Now many of these things are not wrong and if used right can be a tool of
God for His blessing. But when our hope is in them, and not in God, we are
doing what Judah did. When we turn to them for fulfillment, the internet, television,
and alcohol, just to name a few, instead of God, we are doing what Judah did.
Friends, put your hope in God. He is so
much more than a carved image and so much more than any escape we might find.
He is creator and sustainer of everything we know. He has shoulder broad enough
to carry any pain, any hurt, and any worry. He loves you so much that He sent
Jesus to pay the debt of your sin. Turn to Him!
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