Lesson Summary:

Habakkuk complains to God about His lack of action and His incomprehensible judgments.

Focus Passage: Habakkuk 1:1-2:1

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. A Serious Accusation (Habakkuk 1:1-4)

Principle: God’s People Can Bring their Complaints to Him.
Application: What complaints do you have right now that you would like to bring before the Lord?
Scripture Reference

How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
Psalms 13:1-3 (NASB)

II. A Stunning Response (Habakkuk 1:5-11)

Principle: God’s People Are Often Stunned by His Ways.
Application: How have the Lord’s answers and His ways surprised or stunned you?
Scripture Reference

⁸“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,So are My ways higher than your waysAnd My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 (NASB)

III. A Submissive Attitude (Habakkuk 1:12-3:1)

Principle: God’s People Can Trust Him Even When He Does not Make Sense.
Application: How can you move from surprise to submission in trusting the Lord and His ways?
Scripture Reference

⁸But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
⁹I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.
Psalms 52:8-9 (NASB)