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Tracing the Rainbow Through the Rain
Dr. David Davis
Habakkuk 1:1-3
In nineteenth-century Scotland there lived a man with an amazing amount of promise and potential. He was destined for greatness, and all was going wonderfully well for him. While engaged to be married he was suddenly hospitalized. He found he had a degenerative eye disease which would eventually blind him. Consequently, his fiancée broke off their engagement and left him with a broken heart. George Matheson - in blindness and brokenness - within a period of five minutes penned these hymn lyrics we believers have cherished:
0 love that will not let me go
I rest my weary soul in Thee;
I give Thee back the Iife I owe,
That in Thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
0 joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to Thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain
That morn shall tearless be.
We see violence - starvation - suffering - and disease. We are prone to ask - ''Where is God? Why doesn't He do something? Is God really in control?''
All that many of us seem to see in the storms of Iife is the wind - the rain - the thunder and the lightning. But we can trace a rainbow through the rain.
I. LOOKING AT THE STORM BRINGS CONFUSION
Habakkuk 1:1-3 - ''The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see, 0 LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save? Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.''
''Why?'' and ''How long?'' were valid questions to the moral and political decay and decline in Habakkuk's day.
In Chapter 1 - God answers him: ''I am sending the godless Chaldeans to destroy your city and take you captive.''
The truth of Scripture is :There are times when God answers us by allowing the situation to become worse before it ge ...
Dr. David Davis
Habakkuk 1:1-3
In nineteenth-century Scotland there lived a man with an amazing amount of promise and potential. He was destined for greatness, and all was going wonderfully well for him. While engaged to be married he was suddenly hospitalized. He found he had a degenerative eye disease which would eventually blind him. Consequently, his fiancée broke off their engagement and left him with a broken heart. George Matheson - in blindness and brokenness - within a period of five minutes penned these hymn lyrics we believers have cherished:
0 love that will not let me go
I rest my weary soul in Thee;
I give Thee back the Iife I owe,
That in Thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
0 joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to Thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain
That morn shall tearless be.
We see violence - starvation - suffering - and disease. We are prone to ask - ''Where is God? Why doesn't He do something? Is God really in control?''
All that many of us seem to see in the storms of Iife is the wind - the rain - the thunder and the lightning. But we can trace a rainbow through the rain.
I. LOOKING AT THE STORM BRINGS CONFUSION
Habakkuk 1:1-3 - ''The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see, 0 LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save? Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.''
''Why?'' and ''How long?'' were valid questions to the moral and political decay and decline in Habakkuk's day.
In Chapter 1 - God answers him: ''I am sending the godless Chaldeans to destroy your city and take you captive.''
The truth of Scripture is :There are times when God answers us by allowing the situation to become worse before it ge ...
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