(Part 1 in a series of posts on Habakkuk.)

As I mentioned last week, I would like to spend some time blogging with you through the book of Habakkuk. The posts will be adapted from a sermon series on Habakkuk that I will later put on the Sermons page. For example, last week’s series of posts (“Reading the Prophets 1, 2, and 3″) on the Old Testament prophetical books came right out of the introduction to this series. The whole series is called Habakkuk: The Journey from Doubt to Faith.

Next time we will answer the following questions about the prophet Habakkuk: Who was he? When did he live? Why did he write this book? But for now, let me whet your appetite with some of the more well-known verses from this great book in the Old Testament. Do you recognize any of these?

Habakkuk 1:2 – “How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not save?

Habakkuk 1:5 – “Look at the nations and watch — and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.”

Habakkuk 1:12-13 – “O LORD, are you not from everlasting? . . . Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong.”

Habakkuk 2:4b – “But the righteous will live by his faith.” (or, “The just will live by faith.”)

Habakkuk 2:13-14 – “Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”

Habakkuk 2:20 – “The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.”

Habakkuk 3:2 – “LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.”

Habakkuk 3:17-18 – “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”

Habakkuk 3:19 – “The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.”

Here are the links to the whole Blogging with Habakkuk series:
Blogging with Habakkuk (1)
Blogging with Habakkuk (2) – Who? When? Why?
Blogging with Habakkuk (3) – Habakkuk’s Three Big Questions
Blogging with Habakkuk (4) – An Oracle Received
Blogging with Habakkuk (5) – Does God Care?
Blogging with Habakkuk (6) – Does God Care?
Blogging with Habakkuk (7) – Does God Care?
Blogging with Habakkuk (8) – Does God Care?
Blogging with Habakkuk (9) – Is God Fair?
Blogging with Habakkuk (10) – Is God Fair?
Blogging with Habakkuk (11) – Is God Fair?
Blogging with Habakkuk (12) – Is God Fair?
Blogging with Habakkuk (13) – How to Lose It All
Blogging with Habakkuk (14) – How to Lose It All
Blogging with Habakkuk (15) – How to Lose It All
Blogging with Habakkuk (16) – How to Lose It All
Blogging with Habakkuk (17) – Is God There?
Blogging with Habakkuk (18) – Is God There?
Blogging with Habakkuk (19) – Is God There?
Blogging with Habakkuk (20) – Is God There?
Blogging with Habakkuk (21) – Trusting God No Matter What
Blogging with Habakkuk (22) – Trusting God No Matter What
Blogging with Habakkuk (23) – Trusting God No Matter What
Blogging with Habakkuk (24) – Trusting God No Matter What
Blogging with Habakkuk (25) – One Final Post