I Will Be Joyful In God My Savior
Sun
and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the
lightning of your flashing spear. In wrath you strode through the earth and in
anger you threshed the nations. You came out to deliver your people, to save
your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness,
you stripped him from head to foot. With his own spear you pierced his head when
his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the
wretched who were in hiding. You trampled the sea with
your horses, churning the great waters.
I
heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my
bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to
come on the nation invading us. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are
no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no
food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I
will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
The
Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he
enables me to tread on the heights.
Habakkuk 3:11-19
We
have a choice on how to respond to our troubles. The prophet Habbakkuk had an attitude worth following: He made the
choice to rejoice.
Habbakkuk
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Though
it was not clear how
We
too can rejoice in our trials, have surefooted confidence in God, and live on
the heights of His sovereignty.
Praising God in our trials turns burdens into blessings.
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