The Goodness in Habakkuk
Dale Moore · August 23, 2026 · 10:00 AM service
Dale Moore preaches from the last three verses of Habakkuk 3, contrasting the famine and desolation of verse 17 with the prophet's choice to rejoice in the Lord anyway. He traces the famine historically in Judah's judgment under Babylon, prophetically in the tribulation and the two witnesses of Revelation 11, and spiritually in Israel's fruitlessness pictured by the fig tree, then points to the believer's need to abide in Christ to bear fruit. He closes with three things the believer has in verse 19: strength, sure-footedness, and high places, and reminds the church that a saved person cannot fall from grace and can rejoice no matter how bad the world gets.
“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.”