The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Habakkuk 2:1-4, “I will stand on my guard post and station myself on the rampart; and I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, and how I may reply when I am reproved.
2 Then the LORD answered me and said, ‘Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.
3 ‘For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay.”
4 “Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith.”

Did you ever encounter something you simply could not handle? Of course, you have. Did you think at the time to inquire of the LORD in that regard? Of course, you did! Did He then move quickly to resolve your troubling encounter? Your desire may not have been as quickly attended as what the prophet Habakkuk wanted. The LORD acts as quickly as He desires. He also uses whom He will to achieve His desires.

In this instance, the LORD elected to use the Chaldeans, a nation that was more evil than Israel, to punish His own people. To Israel, He said —

15 “Woe to you who make your neighbors drink, who mix in your venom
even to make them drunk so as to look on their nakedness!
16 “You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor. Now you yourself
drink and expose your own nakedness. The cup in the LORD’S right
hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will come upon your
glory.
17 “For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the
devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them, because of human
bloodshed and violence done to the land, to the town and all its inhabitants.
18 “What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it, or an image, a
teacher of falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own handiwork when he
fashions speechless idols” (Hab. 2:15-18).

We would all do well (this writer included) to take careful inventory of our lives on a daily basis.
Having committed ourselves to the will and way of our LORD Jesus Christ does not mean that
everything we do is always within His will. Being “born again,” being one of His children, does not
indicate perfection within ourselves. It is all too often that our lives appear to others as less than we
profess. Thus, we must examine ourselves daily to determine that we are living according to the
LORD’s divine desire. We must live daily in His Word – the Holy Scriptures! We cannot do wrong
and escape Divine penalty.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom