Confidence in Hard Times

Confidence in Hard Times

Bible: Habakkuk 3:17-19

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Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour (V.18).

After a massive hurricane hit my part of the world, I joined a team who travelled to the affected area to offer help. We wanted to support the people who had lost homes in the storm. While we were there, our own relationships with God were challenged and strengthened as we stood with these people in their church buildings and homes that were barely standing.

The amazing trust and confidence in God shown by some of the people we met just blew our minds. Their attitude was similar to Habakkuk’s in the Bible. Habakkuk predicted that tough times were on the way for God’s people (HABAKKUK 1:5-2:1); things would get worse before they got better.

At the end of his prediction, Habakkuk listed disasters and plenty of reasons to give up hope: “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 sheepfold and no cattle in the stalls” (3:17). But surprisingly, he then continues with this little word: “yet”. “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour” (V.18).

How should we handle difficult times of loss or problems? Habakkuk encourages us to face them with confident trust in God who gives us salvation (V.18), strength, security (V.19) and everything else we need for yesterday, today and forever

Those who trust Him will never be disappointed.

OUR TRUST IN GOD CAN BE CONFIDENT BECAUSE HE IS FAITHFUL.

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