READING:
One-year plan: Habakkuk 1-3, Zephaniah 1-3
Two-year plan: Jeremiah 40-41, Hebrews 4:1-13
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Sometimes it’s easy, at least for me, to get frustrated when it seems like God’s not listening to my prayers. I pray and pray, but God doesn’t always come through according to my plans and my timing. It is in those times that I must remember that I’m hardly the first person to have this faith struggle.
The prophet Habakkuk asked the same question of God as he watched the spiritual decline of Judah: “How long, Lord, must I call for help and you do not listen or cry out to you about violence and you do not save?” (Hab 1:2). He could not rest in what appeared to be God’s unwillingness to deal with the evil he saw around him.
In turn, God reminded him that, despite the fact that Habakkuk didn’t see God’s hand, He was carrying out His plan. He may have been working behind the scenes, but He was still working: “For I am doing something in your days that you will not believe when you hear about it” (Hab 1:5). In fact, God was raising up a nation to judge His people, and He would ultimately judge all nations. He was sovereignly in control whether or not Habakkuk understood that fact. That’s a truth I need to cling to as well.
PERSONAL REFLECTION: Do you lean into God’s sovereignty when you struggle waiting on an answer to prayer?
PRAYER: “God, teach me to trust You at all times.”
TOMORROW’S READING:
One-year plan: Haggai 1-2, Zechariah 1-5
Two-year plan: Jeremiah 42:1-44:14, Hebrews 4:14-5:14
MEMORIZATION VERSE (September 16-30)
“For he is the living God, and he endures forever; his kingdom will never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end.” (Daniel 6:26)