Sermon: I Will Rejoice in the Lord

I Will Rejoice in the Lord Habakkuk 3:16b-19 August 1, 2021 Pastor Tony Felich   ----more---- Habakkuk 1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?  Habakkuk 1:5 “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.  Habakkuk 1:12 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.  Habakkuk 2:2 And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.[3] For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. [4] “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.  Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.  Habakkuk 3:16b Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. [17] 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, [18] yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. [19] GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.     Our experience of joy in the Lord and His salvation is not dependent on our immediate circumstances nor does it mean the same thing as happiness.      Salvation (Eternal life) belongs to those who trust in God’s promises (Christ).     Trials and tribulations are part of life in this fallen world.     We can have true joy despite the trials and tribulations of this life.