Why is the book of Habakuk worth to read?
When God lets you down
1. Spiritual Growth
*We need to recognize its gonna take time
*We have to study at your own time
2. Permission to be authentic
*None of us are perfect
*The Fray- 'You found me' -song about God
*Sounds blapshemous
*Habakuk 1:2: How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?
*Habakuk 1:4: Therefore the law is paralized,
and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
*Habakuk 1:13: Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous" Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more rightous than themselves?
3. Help you go the distance
*Everytime we face trouble, we ask why is there suffering when we don't deal with it
*How can you endure suffering without losing faith
*1 Peter 1:6-7: In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith- of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire- may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
*When suffering, we run away from God
*Instead, we should run to him and push to him
*1 Thessalonians 1:6: You became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.
4. Help you connect with unbelievers
*Unbelievers come with doubts and questions
*We need to be able to engage and explore with them
*One reason we are scared to share our faith is because we don't know answers to questions they ask
*The best part? We don't have to answer
*Just share the journey and ask questions by just having faith
**Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path**
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