04/26/2025 – Day 300 – Habakkuk – Chapters 1 – 3 / “Chapter Three – Habakkuk’s Prayer” – An amazing faith testimony, by God’s grace alone!
You may might want to review the first cycle post dated 03/13/2021 for this day as well titled “God’s hope through faith is founded in a holy fear.”
Halley’s Bible Handbook notes that “this prophecy belongs to the period between 625 and 606 B.C., probably about 607 B.C. early in Jehoiakim’s reign. The Chaldeans (Babylonians) were sweeping westward (1:6), but had not yet reached Judah (1:16). It is noted that Jerusalem was burned and the land was desicrated in 586 B.C.
Here is an excerpt commentary over the concluding verses to this book: “Habakkuk’s Confidence in God Expressed”:
“3:16-19 At the end of this book, Habakkuk reiterated his determination to continue to trust God even when conditions of physical survival would become almost insurmountable. Nothing would deter him from his first obligation as a worshiper of Yahweh, to ‘triumph’ and ‘rejoice’ in Him. The ‘salvation’ (v.18) Habakkuk mentioned, in other words, is not dependent on people or circumstances but on God, who supplies ‘strength’ (v.19). That was Paul’s point: Salvation is through faith and therefore dependent on God alone, not on what people strive to do by their own means nor upon the outward circumstances of life. One can hear the echo of Habakkuk in Paul’s admonition. ‘Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say in again: Rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4).”
Soli Deo Gloria!