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📣 Where is your joy when life falls apart? 🤔
What happens when the harvest fails, strength fades, and all familiar comforts are taken away? Can a believer still rejoice?
In this powerful sermon from Habakkuk 3:17–19, we witness a prophet’s song of triumph in the face of desolation. Why? Because his joy is not rooted in circumstances, but in the unchanging God of his salvation.
Through personal stories and deep biblical reflection, we’re reminded that true joy isn’t the absence of pain—it’s the presence of Christ. Whether through the witness of suffering saints or the bold example of Habakkuk, we’re called to rejoice alway—not because life is easy, but because our God is faithful.
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"Although the fig tree shall not blossom." It's not a comforting word; it is not a comforting testimony. You are toiling hard that your fig tree shall blossom, but even though if it will not blossom—”even though, Lord, if it will not blossom, I will praise you.” (prayed weakly) No, it's not like that. “Lord, I am sincere. Lord, even if my fig tree shall not blossom, I assure you, O Lord, my conscience is clear. I will rejoice still in you.” (prayed confidently)
We Christians are not spared from this. Christians are not spared from trials. As the Charismatic would always say, ‘We, when we become Christian, we are always safe from all alarms. We we are spared from all kinds of troubles in life.’ That's how the Charismatic would preach. But that is not how Christ preached. Christ says, "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)
Do you have it right now? For sure you will have. And if you will have it, it is not intended to make you suffer, that the Lord may destroy you, but that you may prove that the Lord is good, that you may prove that the Lord give us great comfort and assurance even in the lowest and the worst situation of our life. This is our blessing in the Lord as a Christian. So he said in verse 18, "I will rejoice still in the Lord God of my salvation."
You should be able to say this from your heart when when you are confronted with all kinds of difficulties.