The God of My Salvation

The prayer of Habakkuk calls on Yahweh to be the God of salvation he knows God to be. Habakkuk petitions God to once deliver His people from the evil that surrounds them, even if this means that His faithful remnant must endure hardship and suffering as His plan of salvation is carried out. "In Your wrath, Lord, remember mercy," Habakkuk pleads.

For God to remember is for Him to act in covenant faithfulness, to act according to who He is and what He has promised. God's greatest act of covenant faithfulness is seen in the sending of Jesus Christ. Through His life, death, and resurrection is the covenant promise of salvation fulfilled. Through Christ is the evil one triumphed over; through Christ is the evil one's victory and power stripped away from him.

Habakkuk's prayer and prophetic word ends with this realization: not that life is easy, not that sorrow is absent, but that Christ is present.