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"The Response of a Sufferer" {Hab3}
* When given choice of responses to suffering, best choice (faithful choice) always praiseful acceptance of God's will
* Response#1: Prayer
- Ch1&2 build in frustration, but ends in ch2 (v20) in quiet.
- Then Ch.3 begins as prayer
* Response#2: Waiting
- Hab recalls evidences of God's grace in v3-15
- Recounts blessings of God as he waits on God
* Response#3: Rejoicing
- v16-17 = No matter the circumstances or situation
- v18 = Rejoice
- Cross the ultimate redemption of all suffering & sin
- "Your sufferings are not so great as your sins" -- Thomas Watson