Calm amidst the Storm - Confidence in God

Up at 6:30 this morning. Had a reasonable sleep for which I am thankful. It's a beautiful morning and time to be with the Lord, and hear him in reading the oracle of his prophet Habakkuk.

Habakkuk is confident in the fame of his Lord and in the Lord's awesome deeds. It is in the Lord that he awaits for the redemption of the people, to come from God. Yet, in the meantime, he is not perplexed by all the 'wrong' things going on about him, "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will rejoice in God my Saviour." In his Lord Habakkuk trusts, hes sees his strength in him, and it is he who will steady his feet on craggy ground.

The Lord is the Lord of all redemption. He does not redeem us from perfect places but from the imperfect. He does not redeem us from the imperfect immediately at the moment we recognise the pressing thing that is upon us, nor does he immediatley lift us out when we ask for relief. Our redemption is not so much to be drawn away to a safe place (although that will happen), but our redemption is present and real as God makes us strong and able to walk above the plagues and pestilences as we trust in him.

We trust God knowing that he is the one who does awesome deeds and we wait upon him to "renew those deeds in our time".

Praise be to the Lord God Yahweh.