WE LIVE BY FAITH!

WE LIVE BY FAITH!

 But the righteous shall live by his faith. —Habakkuk 2:4

 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.  —Habakkuk 2:14

 What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!  Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it. —Habakkuk 2:18-19

             With all that is going on in the world we could feel like Habakkuk and say, “Lord where are You? Why is all this evil happening? Don’t You care? Are You with us? Will You act and make things right? But our Lord is always working. It is we who cannot understand fully what He is doing at any given moment. We need to be faithful with what He has revealed to us through His Word

            Yes, “the righteous shall live by faith.” We trust Him for all those things we do not understand and we do not understand so much. What we do understand about Him is what He has revealed in His Word. Let us cling to what He has to say and trust Him to work out His plans and purposes on this planet. To do so is to live by faith and there is plenty of evidence for having faith (Hebrews 11:1). Let us be pleasing to God, looking to Him no matter what the circumstances (Hebrews 11:6).

            Many are following profitless idols, teachers of lies. They trust in themselves and the work of their own hands. Woe to those who think they can learn from these false ideas as beautiful as they may appear to be. Man’s religious, idolatress ideas are lifeless and are only destructive to themselves and all they promote these lies to.

• Wicked rulers… they are not getting away with anything. They may be wicked and promote wickedness, but the time is coming when “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea!”
• Evil human traffickers… they are not getting away with anything. They may be seemingly getting their own way, but the time is coming when “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea!”
• Destructive drug dealers… they are not getting away with anything. They may be making a buck off their wares and destroying lives, but the time is coming when “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea!”
• Murderous terrorists… they are not getting away with anything. They may be promoting their terror at the moment, but the time is coming when “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea!”

Then He will make all things right!

Brother and sister, we walk by faith, not by sight. We trust Him with all the evidence around us and trust Him with the expected fulfillment of His Word. Yes! Let us keep listening to what He has to say in this fallen wicked world that would seek to distract us from Him. Dear Father may this be so in the power of Your Holy Spirit and in the authority of Your Son Jesus. Yes! Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus as we run this race You have laid out for us. May this be so! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3yFcZNA6ko