Though the fig tree should 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, yet I will rejoice in the Lord ; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God , the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the ; he makes me tread on my high places. Habakkuk 3:17–19

When life is , God is .

He’s got the whole world in .

The promise, because of God and not our situation, is that I can stand strong and secure like an Ibex on the cliff, I can stand strong in the place of .

Habakkuk . (Hab. 1:2)

The natural response to loss is .

It’s not a lack of . Truth is, we’ll never find deepening faith for the uncertainties of life without this level of honesty.

We don’t get our sorrow without going our sorrow.

It is what God humans to do. It is what God does. (Jn. 11:34-35; Gn. 6:6)

Complaining God is act of worship. Complaining God is an act of rebellion.

We do not want to…grieve like the rest of men, who have . 1 Thessalonians 4:13

Habakkuk . ( Hab. 2:3-4)

Waiting on the Lord is doing what we know to do until the Father fulfills His promises.

We .

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Habakkuk . (Hab.2:20)

This a season like no other to all the ways God has been faithful not just to us but to humanity.

And when we have trouble doing so, we go to the most obvious place. We go to the !