Habakkuk 3, Hebrews 2

(Habakkuk 3)

Verse 9 says, “You uncovered your bow, you called for many arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers”. In the middle of Habakkuk literally praising God for greatness and his awe, he takes a moment of pause. Selah.

Selah literally means “to pause”. It comes from the Hebrew word that means to not only suspend, but to weigh. Here we are challenged to not only celebrate the greatness of the one who spoke, and it was, but to remember that greatness and literally take a moment to soak it in. Reflect on it. Celebrate it. Be thankful for it.

Father, this day may we take time to pause. As we seek moments to be still in you, may we remember your greatness. Thank you, Lord, that in your greatness there is grace and a love that we can only begin to understand.

(Hebrews 2)

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.” Vs. 9

Lower than the angels? Jesus? The son of a Holy God was made lower than the angels? God, what an amazing sacrifice! What a small task you have assigned us that we might live greater than our nature in light of how you have lived so much below yours, that we could have life.