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Habakkuk 1
1. Recall a situation that you faced longer term injustice.
a. What was your reaction to the lack of resolution to this injustice?
What helped alleviate the pain of the situation, if anything?
Read Habakkuk 1:1-2:1
2. What is the struggle Habakkuk is facing, according to the first four
verses?
a. Who is acting out this evil? [This is key, it is fellow Jews who
are perpetrating evil against God’s people…see verse 4 (wicked
hem in the righteous) they are in their midst, i.e. they are fellow
Jews]
b. What is his complaint against God?
3. What effect does this situation have on God’s Word, from Habakkuk’s
vantage point?
a. What happens to our perspective of the power and rightness of God’s
Word when we face unresolved evil and conflict?
4. What’s is God’s resolution to Habakkuk’s complaint?
a. How does God describe the Babylonians in verses 5-11?
b. How do they treat justice?
c. What are they like spiritually?
5. Why does God’s action in raising up the Babylonians cause an equally
significant quandary for Habakkuk?
a. What key issue remains unresolved in Habakkuk’s mind?
b. What seems to be Habakkuk’s problem with God’s answer?
6. What limitations did Habakkuk set on how God would punish the evil doers
within the Jewish community?
a. What assumptions did he bring to the table?
b. What can we learn about the character of God from this chapter?
7. Consider the challenges of Christians living in a nearby, impoverished
community.
a. What affect do you think poverty, crime, and blight have on
believers there?
b. How do you think it affects their view of God?
8. What do you find yourself assuming God will do in situations of
unresolved evil?
a. Consider difficulties, pain, evil that goes unresolved for yourself
or perhaps for your fellowship.
b. What ways do you find yourself placing limits on what God can do to
rectify the situation?
9. Pray in your small groups for evil that our brothers and sisters face on
a daily basis in hard-pressed areas of the world.
a. Pray also for each other’s struggles with unresolved evil.
b. Ask God to expand your understanding of His sovereignty in those
situations & to protect your understanding of His Word’s power.
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