For years I have been hung up on the words, “God is Good.” We tend only to say it when things are good. If we feel that God is good, we will say it when things aren’t just good but also bad, uncomfortable, and sad.
Habakkuk was a minor prophet that lived in the time when Babylon was becoming the dominant world power. The people would go back into captivity out of the promised land into a land they didn’t own. Habakkuk saw the dying world and was sad; it broke his heart.
Everything around Habakkuk was failing. Crops failed, animals died, and the devastation of Judah was happening. BUT even in these times, he still rejoiced in the Lord. He was able to say that God is good. It was God’s faith that gave him the strength he needed.
When we are at a time when nothing makes sense, when troubles are more than we can handle, when we have those questions for God, take your eyes off the situations and look to God for strength. Circumstances may not change, but we can change our focus.
Habakkuk 3:16-19
New International Version
16 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.
17 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,
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
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