Rejoice Anyway!

 

Habakkuk realized that his nation was in dire straits. The situation looked hopeless, but the prophet, encouraged by God, made a willful choice to rejoice in the Lord. Habakkuk knew that deliverance from this situation would come only from the hand of the Lord; therefore, he praised God despite how things looked.

 If only we could have the resolve of Job and Habakkuk. If only we could have complete confidence in God and believe with our whole hearts what Paul said in Romans 8:28: “We know that all things work together for good for them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.” If we trust God, we know that there is a purpose and reason for everything and we won’t find it difficult to give thanks and rejoice even on those very dark days.

 It is a choice to rejoice. It is a choice to trust. It is a choice to believe. It is a choice to hope. It should not matter what the future looks like as long as we know who is holding our future. “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)