Chapel Recap: A Faith That Endures in Chaos

Today in chapel, Junior Class Chaplain Jack Armstrong taught from Habakkuk 3, challenging everyone to develop a faith that endures — a faith that remembers God’s character and holds firm when life feels uncertain.

Armstrong began by reminding us of the main theme that runs through Habakkuk’s message: “The righteous will live by their faith.” Drawing from Habakkuk 3:3–7, he described how God’s power and presence appear in awe-inspiring ways. The prophet Habakkuk pictures God marching through creation in both mercy and wrath — a God whose justice and compassion are never in conflict but work together to accomplish His purpose.

Armstrong centered his message on the idea that God’s mercy and wrath prompt a faith that lasts. He unpacked this truth through three timeless principles:

1. God is powerfully righteous. Armstrong emphasized that God deserves our praise as the eternal, righteous, and all-powerful Creator.
2. God has been faithful before. Throughout history, God has shown mercy to His people and brought judgment on evil. Remembering this faithfulness strengthens our belief that He will not fail us now.
3. God will be faithful again. Just as Habakkuk trusted God’s past faithfulness, we too can look ahead with confidence, knowing that God’s character never changes.

Habakkuk’s personal response in verses 17–19 gives us an excellent example of faith that endures chaos: Even when everything around him failed — crops dying, livestock gone, hope fading — he still rejoiced in God. “Habakkuk trusts in God regardless of the situation,” Armstrong noted, “because he knows God has been faithful before and will be faithful again.”

Armstrong then closed with a challenge for us to have faith, which means facing life’s problems with the knowledge of who God is and what He has done. He also encouraged us to look to Christ, the ultimate display of God’s saving mercy, when we feel hopeless and to have confidence in chaos, making God our ultimate strength when everything else feels unstable.