You went forth with salvation

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For salvation with Your Anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, by laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah – Habakkuk 3v13

As Habakkuk stood there in silence and waited for God he began to see some things about God. He saw that God was not acting rashly. He saw that God had given them a chance and that they had rejected it.

‘You went forth for the salvation of Your people, for salvation with Your anointed.’

Can we possibly imagine what would have happened if God did not go forth with salvation? There is no way that we could have gone to God for salvation. After all He lived in the High and Lofty Place. He inhabited eternity. He was of purer eyes than to behold evil. He was, in fact, inaccessible to His fallen creation.

This is one of those passages that is much more clear on this side of the cross. It is a part of the mystery of the gospel that Paul writes about in Ephesians. Now it is clear to us what Habakkuk is saying.

Eventually, when the fullness of time had come, God did go forth with salvation. How did He do it? Just as the verse says here He went for with His anointed.

Jesus brought salvation to man. God went forth with His salvation in the person of His Anointed, Jesus Christ. We could not go to Him so He came to us bringing the salvation that only He could provide.

Praise God for the hope that comes because He went forth with salvation. It is our only hope.