Willetton Christian Church

Habakkuk 3.  Tony van Drimmelen.  When darkness looms, when despair and desperation threaten, the call to rejoice in the Lord can seem like a million miles away from where we want to be.  Habakkuk does it!  Not in spite of his sorrow and grief but rather because of them.  Habakkuk has been addressing the very real issue of evil, God’s sovereignty and our relationship with God.  After asking God the hard questions, he comes to the point where he exclaims: “yet I will rejoice in the God of my salvation” (Hab 3:18).  We ask, how is this possible?  As the New Year gets underway, we do well to consider how ready we are to rejoice in the Lord in all circumstances.