Have you ever found yourself going through a difficult time and wondering how in the world you were going to make it through? Have you found yourself crying out to God for deliverance from what troubles you were facing, hoping that He would just make all the difficult things disappear? Of course, that's not the way God usually works. We are told time and again in His Word that everything He does is for our good and His glory - but knowing that in our heads doesn't make it any easier on our hearts, does it?

Our pastor has been preaching through the book of Habakkuk recently. It's been interesting to see how desperately the prophet cries out before God, begging for deliverance. He is not given any promise of that deliverance, and yet, by the end of the book, he has found a way to rejoice in his circumstances.

"Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet 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."

Oh that we could say the same with this Old Testament saint - that though we face the most difficult of situations (the fields yield no food... there be no herd in the stalls), we know beyond a doubt that our God will make our feet as the feet of a deer, to carry us higher - above the trials of this life, over the mountains of struggle, through the passes of discouragement. Our God is our strength, our Rock, our Fortress.

In that, we can rejoice.


(Habakkuk 3:17-19)

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