We have to Get There

Habakkuk 3:17-19 NIV

“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, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”

This Habakkuk’s resolve after he had lamented to God. He complained and received answers, although not the answers he wanted. Go back and read all three chapters. But he shows us how to get real with God.. When we get real God is real with us. Too often we say he is real, but we are not real with him, and we miss that space of communication with him.

When we can pour out what we are feeling, then we can hear clearer what he says. But we have to release first. This passage is the closing of Habakkuk’s release. and it’s a resolve that we want- we want to be in that place that whatever happens-yet we will rejoice. But we rejoice after releasing in lament. more later.