I choose....

Today in my quiet time I was in the book of Habakkuk. Say that three times fast! Habakkuk was a prophet sent to the kingdom of Judah in the time just before the Babylonian captivity. Habakkuk saw the evil atrocities of the barbarians that God would use to punish Judah and he obviously had a problem with God's intentions. He writes in his "diary" Hab 1:2 I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, “Violence!” But you do not intervene." Does this sound like "me" at times? God where are you as we see the evil about us? God seems to be, at times, silent to us..but He has not left the scene of action. He is there and He responds: Hab 1:5 "For I will do something in your lifetime that you will not believe even though you are forewarned." As this dialog continues back and forth we see the anguish in Habakkuk's soul and yet at the end of the book we see his conclusion to the matter. Habakkuk writes that he chooses...I will exult the Lord... Hab 3:18 I will rejoice because of the Lord; I will be happy because of the God who delivers me! The sovereign Lord is my source of strength.That is what lies before us as well. What choices will we make?