My rote memory is not what it should or could be (or will be), but my life memory is well-grooved by this psalm. It has changed me in the midst of most difficult times, and has brought joy to me in the best times. As I began to wrap up this study of the goodness of God, I re-read the paraphrased prayer of TET for the millionth time, and was struck anew by the truth of every line of it. It rings with lived out experience, the psalmists and my own. Yes, it is all true. It is all so gloriously true!
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Habakkuk’s Song, Pt. III
We are human and our cycles of falling to weakness and error are part of the reality of this life. And yet because of God’s Promise by faith, God’s people are called to HOPE. Hope behaves in a way that enacts the Promise as if it is already fulfilled.
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Habakkuk’s Song, Pt. II
God is terrifying, if we understand Him correctly. It is when we take God for granted, when we dismiss Him as a great and distant Clockmaker, or a figment of our “wishful thinking”–an entity that is better left to think of “later”–that our destruction begins.
