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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Habakkuk 2:1-20
In any time of trial, let us do like Habakkuk: let us climb up on to this "tower" (cf. Proverbs 18:10) which protects us, keeps us apart from the multitude, and so enables us to consider everything from above, from God’s own viewpoint (Isaiah 55:8-9).
There God’s servant receives the answer to his anxiety: he is told, "the just shall live by his faith." That is the key to the present situation. Around him nothing has changed: the enemy is still there and every kind of iniquity continues to be practised. But the faith of the just can lean upon the certainties of the Word of his God. His anxious questions cease. He believes; he knows that this same earth, today filled with man’s vanity, will soon be "filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD" (v. 14; Isaiah 11:9). He is instructed as to the fate of the wicked, although their sentence is suspended for the time being (vv. 6-20). Notice how the actions of unbelievers contrast with righteousness and the life of faith — faith which is equally necessary for salvation and for our walk through the world. V. 4 is quoted three times in the Epistles (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38). In these passages, this statement is fundamentally important in establishing that faith is the only way to obtain righteousness and eternal life.
