PRAYING FOR MERCY AND REVIVAL BEFORE CERTAIN JUDGMENT...HABAKKUK 3--Lesson 17
Even though he might not fully understand what God was doing, " Habakkuk" (to 'wrestle' or 'embrace') has wrestled through his beliefs and understanding of God having finally come to the place of resting in or embracing God's sovereign will. In our own lives, we might understand what it means to go from a place of worry in a hard place to a place of whole-hearted worship...in that same place. Our outward circumstances did not change--except, perhaps, to get worse. The radical change that took place was in our hearts that are being continually transformed by the renewing of our minds. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2) In Chapter 1:1-17, we saw the prophet complaining to God from a watch-and-see perspective. Things are not always as they appear. Though he could never have anticipated how God w