Chapter 1
Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. Habakkuk 1:5 – Believe this to be true. Yes, this was written over 2000 years ago and was speaking of the sinfulness that was going unchecked in Judah. That God was working in ways that Habakkuk wouldn’t even believe if told. Yet while this wasn’t directed at our story, the message still is true today. God is working. He is moving in ways that if told to us would overwhelm us. He is not only working today for today, but what He is doing is prepping things for ages to come. So yes, if our eyes stay glued to the news or Facebook headlines, I can easily see why we could begin to think God has stopped acting and working. But as in the verse, look among the nations. Look at what God has been doing in the lives of the people around you. Just look and you’ll see over and over again that His hands are still creating and moving within our story. God hasn’t let up in His work within our lives. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1414
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he? Habakkuk 1:13 – Habakkuk is a conversation between the prophet and The Lord. The prophet sees the sinfulness of his people and brings it before the Lord. What confuses the prophet is that God’s plan to handle the sinfulness is to bring an even more sinful nation to take them over. Has God’s response to a issue in your story ever confused you? We ask why God, in His ability to do anything He wants, why He would move in such a way that seems to us to create even more of a problem. In this, just like the prophet is called to, we must trust the Lord. Moves God will make won’t always makes sense to us because we don’t see the picture God sees. When we find ourselves in a season like this, choose to trust the Lord. He really does know what He is doing and He’s navigated even more difficult things with His people before. Lean more into prayer to seek out clarity on why God is moving in the ways He is, but even when that clarity doesn’t come remain faithful the the path He’s called you to. God is good and He knows what He is doing. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2102
Chapter 2
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. But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. Habakkuk 2:18-20 – This passage speaks to the things an idol can’t do within our story. It can’t speak to us, can’t teach us the ways to go, or can’t breathe into our life like we need it to. All that and more is something God can and will do within our story. For even those of us who have been following Jesus faithfully for years we need to keep a constant check that it’s Jesus we’re following exclusively. Sometimes we can look for a voice or breath into our lives from something else. That could look like an old mindset we haven’t discarded fully or even a new one that is trying to be what guides our thoughts. Many other things could seek to take that role too, so be sure to wake each day and choose Jesus as the focal point of your worship. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1415
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. Habakkuk 2:3 – What God has said will take place we can be sure will take place. In Habakkuk it’s the coming judgement on the nation that is being used to give Israel their judgement. In your story, what is it that you’re still waiting for? God has promised comfort yet it seems to have missed its ride to your story. God has promised strength to deal with the troubles of this life yet that strength isn’t being felt. God has promised a way out but no doors seem to be opening. Trust in this wait time that it is just that, a wait time. A time where you are waiting for something sure to arrive. Whether it’s the judgement we see being spoken of in Habakkuk or your comfort you need in this season, if God has spoken that it will come, it will come. Our God never fails to keep His word to us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2103
Chapter 3
I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enter my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. (v.16) Know that even now in the midst of struggle, you can stay firmly planted in your commitment to God. I see that message coming out clear when reading over the passage, but how do we stay committed in the middle of all this craziness that’s going around us? We see Habakkuk is in the middle of his own craziness as he writes. Begin to visualize someone actually trembling and shaking in fear like Habakkuk writes. I see someone curled in a corner, terrified of what is all around them. This sure doesn’t match up with our normal images of what we think a holy prophet of God looks like…which might actually be more helpful to us, this is a little more relatable. What we see here is someone who is terrified of the world around them, but still staying committed to God because he knows God is going to come through for him. That’s the key to staying committed ourselves to in the middle of our fear. Know that God hasn’t forgotten about you and hasn’t left you. The day will come when those that are putting fear in you won’t be around anymore. God will see your commitment and lift you up, give strength to your trembling legs, and show you that you never had to worry because He was there all along. Our key to staying with God in the craziness is knowing that God is staying with us in the craziness. – Daily DEVO 78
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:17-18 – This is the part of our walk that is often the most difficult. The times where things around you aren’t growing like they should, things aren’t producing the outcomes to help sustain you, and the prospect of the future seems grim. Yet, you choose to still rejoice in the Lord. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that part is easy, but I will tell you it’s our way through the seasons of emptiness. Those times are real and can so easily take us down emotionally, physically, and even spiritually, but when we keep our mindset on the goodness of God through it all we can continue to walk steadily forward. Trust He will come through for you even when everything around you wants to convince you differently. So rejoice, not because everything right now is good, but because our God is good and is able to do something good in our story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1416
He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways. Habakkuk 3:6 – What seems to be unmovable in our story moves when God steps in. The “eternal mountains” in this passage is debated if it means literal mountains as an example of something we’d never think could move or the mountain of the enemy that seems impossible to take care of. Either way, the message remains that whatever the mountain may be, however unmovable it may seem to us, God can move it. His ways are the ones that will be everlasting and unmovable. When God steps in, things that He wants moved moves. What then seems like an “eternal mountain” in your story right now? Fear, bitterness, worry, loneliness, and hopelessness can be parts of our story that just seem to be going no where no matter how hard we try. Know though these are not God’s ways and God can move the unmovable. He can move these out and replace them with His unshakable trust and endless hope. Yet, just like Habakkuk, the moving of the unmovable may not come in the ways or in the time we expect it to. Learn here from scripture God has the power to move these things, that God has a plan to move out things that aren’t of Him, and that God sees you in this season. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2104
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