Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Jul 26, 2025, 8:13 AM
Passage Read: Nahum 2 - Habakkuk 2
Meditation Verses: Habakkuk 1:2-3
Thought
What is God's response to our cry for justice? What is God's response to our cry against injustice and our pleas for Him to fix things? It is to do what we and our leaders should have done all along: It is to judge and condemn and destroy from the land those who do wrong. Habakkuk is looking on his own people and their wickedness, their perversion of justice, their violence and conflict. So the Lord promises to raise up the Babylonians, to execute God's justice and vengeance on the wicked of His own people.
Jul 18, 2024, 2:11 AM
Passage Read: Nahum 2 - Habakkuk 2
Meditation Verse: Habakkuk 1:4
Thought
When the Law is ignored, justice can never be upheld. When rulers and judges ignore the law of the land, justice never comes, how much more when they ignore the Law of God? And why do they ignore the law? Because they themselves violate it and wouldn't want to be judged by it. They don't keep the law, so they would be condemned by the law. They are wicked, and so they must ignore the law and make justice whatever they want, whatever would not condemn them.
Jun 27, 2023, 6:52 AM
Passage Read: Nahum 2 - Habakkuk 2
Meditation Verses: Habakkuk 2:3-4
Thought
This revelation doesn't answer Habakkuk's original complaint, but goes much bigger and further than that. This chapter speaks of the end of days and the punishment of all wicked, especially the great conqueror in the end times. Because of that, Habakkuk will have to wait even longer to see it fulfilled. He's looking for deliverance from the trouble that surrounds him, but God speaks of deliverance from an even greater enemy at the end of this age.