Habakkuk 3:1-19 – September 8th 2017

PRAISING GOD FOR HIS JUSTICE

Read Habakkuk 3:1-16

1. How does this passage describe God? What are some of the actions God is described as doing?
2. What is Habakkuk's response to this 'report' of God's work? What does he feel in response to hearing these things? (v. 2, 16)
3. What is Habakkuk’s prayer in light of this? (v.2)
4. What does Habakkuk say he will wait for?

Read Habakkuk 3:17-19

1. Summarize Habakkuk’s conclusion in this section.
2. How is this different from his view of God in Hab. 1?
3. What is not the basis of whether he will rejoice? What is the basis of his rejoicing?

1. What is your initial response to this description of the Lord?
2. How should the power and destruction God carries out shape the way we think about him? How should it inform the way we pray and live?
3. How do we remind ourselves that our joy should be in the Lord?
4. Habakkuk takes strength in the midst of hardship because of promises of God that he knows are coming. What promises of the Lord encourage you?