Habakkuk’s prayer describes God’s power, wrath, mercy and salvation. He concludes by saying “I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places“. Despite God’s fury poured out on the nations, the day of trouble, the famine, Habakkuk would continue to trust in God, and rely on God’s strength to guide him through his life.
Peter points out that God “has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness“, and also has “granted to us his precious and very great promises“. Everything we have, our hope of salvation and very life, have been given to us by God. Our response should be to “supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.“