昨天我们说要展开一段新的旅程，这旅程会显示一些步骤，是我们从迷惘走到信靠，或是从恐惧走到信心所需要采取的。这段特别旅程的地图是旧约一卷小而重要的书卷──哈巴谷的预言。我们对哈巴谷个人生命的背景──他的家庭、父母或职业──知道得很少，但我们知道他是希伯来人，也是耶利米先知同时代的人。

哈巴谷似乎是以向神提出一个尖锐的问题来开始他的先知事奉，那就是今天的经文所提出的问题。好像旧约很多其他的先知一样，哈巴谷因为邪恶的不止息而感到迷惑和沮丧。他不明白为甚么神不介入制止他周围那些不敬虔的列国。全能者在处理这个问题上似乎有耽延，导致他感到十分迷惘和忧虑。那拉莫博士（Clyde Narramore）说：「迷惘是基督徒生命中其中一块最大的绊脚石。它令很多基督徒陷于绝望的边缘。」

多年前，我在美国遇到一个人，他戴着一块刻有B.A.I.K.几个字母的牌。我问他那是甚么意思时，他说：「天啊，我真的很迷惘」（Boy Am I Confused）。我说：「但『迷惘』这个字开头的字母不是K。」他很快地回答：「所以嘛，你看我是多么的迷惘」。你是否为了自己属灵生命的某些事情而感到迷惘？如果是，那就要注意了──神帮助哈巴谷由迷惘走到信靠，祂为哈巴谷所做的事，也会为你做的。

Yesterday we said that we are starting out on a journey that will reveal the steps we need to take in order to move , or from fear to faith. Our map for this special journey is a small but significant book of the Old Testament - the prophecy of Habakkuk. We know very little about the personal details of Habakkuk's life - his home, his parents or his occupation - but we do know that he was a Hebrew and a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah.

Habakkuk, it seems, began his prophetic ministry by asking God a pointed question - the one posed in our text today. Like many other prophets of the Old Testament, Habakkuk was perplexed and frustrated by the continuance of evil. He could not understand why God did not intervene to restrain the godless nations around him. The Almighty's apparent slowness in dealing with this issue produced within him a good deal of confusion and concern. "Confusion," says Dr Clyde Narramore, "is one of the biggest stumbling-blocks in the Christian life. It has brought many a Christian to the edge of despair."

Some years ago I met a man in the United States of America wearing a badge on which were inscribed the initials B.A.I.K. When I asked him what they meant he said: "Boy Am I Confused". I countered: "But you don't spell 'confused' with a K." He promptly replied: "Well, that shows you how confused I am." Are you confused about something in your spiritual life at this moment? Then take heart - God helped Habakkuk to move . And what He did for Habakkuk, He will also do for you.