It's easy to praise God when everything is going well.
When the paychecks come in regularly and the bills are paid.
When the family is healthy.
When the car is working.
When the roof is not leaking.
But what about when things are not going so well?
Habakkuk had received visions from God that the Babylonian armies were coming to Jerusalem to destroy it.
Awful things were going to happen.
Crops would be destroyed.
Walls knocked down.
People murdered.
Yet Habakkuk was going to choose to praise God.
He wasn't going to thank God for the desolation.
He was going to praise God for being God.
"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 deer's. He makes me tread on my high places" (Hab 3:19).
He was praising God for who He is.
He was praising God for His deliverance in the midst of the trials.
His focus was not on the trials, but on God.
He was choosing to praise God.
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