Are things in our life falling apart? Our finances look uncertain, the career we worked to build is floundering, our health is failing, the people we trusted have let us down. Nobody enjoys such times, but if we live long enough well go through them. And they have a way of making us re-examine our responses. When the things the prophet Habakkuk counted on started to crumble, he was forced to discern between whats truly important and whats merely temporal. Its a re-evaluation we all have to make at some point. Heres what Habakkuk said: Though the fig tree does not bud...there are no grapes on the vines...the olive crop fails...the fields produce no food...there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD...The SOVEREIGN LORD is my strength...HE enables me to go on (Habakkuk 3:17-19). Habakkuk realised he had no control over certain things. So he chose to control his response by rejoicing in the LORD regardless of what happened, and drawing from GOD the strength to go on. What can we learn from this man? That we have a choice! That we can decide to praise GOD regardless of the hand life deals us. GOD doesnt promise to take us out of our situation; HE promises to bring us through it. So, let us change our response and begin to praise GOD for HIS faithfulness, for our salvation, for our health, for our friends and family, and all the other blessings HES given us. If we look for reasons to rejoice, well find them! AMEN
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:10:52 +0000
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