| Always Rejoice Habakkuk 3:17-18 |
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What Habukkuk is talking about is a description of a time of famine. Everything that is mentioned is talking about going through difficult times. Now, we all go through those times where it seems like nothing good is happening. It seems like everything in your life is failing or going from bad to worse.
Notice here that the prophet said even though these things are happening I will rejoice in the Lord. We always need to be rejoicing. The Apostle Paul mentioned in Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord, and again I say rejoice." Paul was saying that in all things we need to rejoice.
Many Christians during tough times don't know how rejoice or they do and just don't do it. Some once told me that in the middle of adversity if you don't rejoice the devil will think he is winning. The quieter you are, the more real and the bigger your problems will seem like.
How do we rejoice? The word rejoice means to brighten up. It also means to jump up, spin around under violent emotion. There are several different ways in which we can rejoice. Prasie is a form of rejoicing, dancing in the spirit is a form of rejoicing, laughing is a form of rejoicing. Rejoicing is an action that brings the presence of God into the middle of your hardship.
I remember one time I was telling a guy at church about a problem that seemed hopeless and it seemed nothing could ever be done about it, but he looked and me and told me that everything was going to be alright.
That is the kind of attitude that we need to keep. Everything could come against you at one time, but you have to temember that there is something more important that that. You need to remember that you are saved, and you need to rejoice in the fact that you have eternal life and rejoice in the hope of glory, which is Jesus Christ.
May God richly bless you
3:17 Though the fig tree do 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, 3:18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. |
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