Trust In God

The book of Habukkuk talks a lot about trusting God. It's Habukkuk praying to God and then God's responses to him. It's not a very long book, but it is a very meaningful book, and we Christians can learn a lot from Habukkuk and how he response and talks to God. He doesn't talk as if it were a formal conversation, but as if he was chatting with a friend. That's how we should pray to God, but this post isn't about prayer. It's about trust. We have looked at Habukkuk 2:3, now lets look at the next verse: Look at the proud! They trust in themselves and their live are crooked: but the righteous will live by their faith. When we try to trust in ourselves and our own devises we fall short of course. Our lives become crooked and soon fall. But the righteous who trust in God will find the strength to endure. Christians must trust God for all things, not just the bad things in life. We need to trust that God;s plan will happen and he will take care of us and provide as he said he would. Farther in the chapter God says to Habukkuk: How foolish to trust in something made my your own hands! (verse 18). Why should we trust in ourselves, new age books. We try to trust things that lead us no where and only cause us to fall. The only thing we need to trust is God himself! We need to depend on God for all things in life.

God's Plan

God has a plan for all of us, that is something we can generally agree on. The fact is we never know what that plan is. Sometimes apart of the plan includes some heartache and trials like cancer, heart issues, lose of family, rape, depression and so many other tribulations one can go through, throughout life. We never know what is going to happen and when, but we do know that there is a reason for everything. Many times we want what we want, when we want it. We don't want to wait for things to happen.


Habakkuk 2:3 says But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently for it will surely take place. God has a plan for everyone, he knows what will happen and when it will happen. But it has to be in the right time, God's time not our own. Certain things that we want to happen will only happen when the time is right, when God is ready for it to happen. We cannot try and make things happen on our own. What is the point in trying to anticipate God's will/plan?

God knows when things will happen, and he know what will happen. God has a divine vision and we shouldn't go around trying to make it happen when the timing is all wrong. We should pray and trust that God's will, will be done.