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Friday... Even though, yet I will.


Habakkuk 3:17-18 (NLT), "Even though... yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my strength."

Friday... Even though, yet I will.

There is so much that comes our way. This morning I needed to get my car charged and I do it close to a Starbucks. So I set my car all up to the charger, went in, got a tall coffee, by the way they were slow and started reading my three chapters for today in the Bible in the NIV version. At one point, I looked at my phone and realized that my car wasn't getting charged so I picked up my stuff, headed to my car and I found that the charger wasn't working and that was frustrating, so I moved to another charger. Yes, that was annoying but I then started reading my three chapters from a different version and I came upon these words in the NLT.


In Habakkuk 3:17-18 in the New Living Translation it says, "Even though... yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my strength." and God got me right there. His Word spoke to the way I was handling this situation.

Even though my car didn't get charged the way I wanted it yet I can rejoice because God wanted to use this time to show that he was with me and that I can rejoice. And I did. It was a very meaningful time.

Yes in those times I can handle them with a whole lot of griping and I was starting to do that this morning until I read Habakkuk 3:17-18 where God showed Habakkuk and me how to handle the difficulties of our lives and turn them into rejoicing.

Here is what the whole verses of 17-19 says, "Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! The Sovereign LORD is my strength! He makes me surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the height."

Psalm 68:19 says, "Praise the Lord; praise God our savior! For each day he carries us in his arms."

Even though I am having problems with whatever in my life yet I will rejoice in the Lord because he has me in his arms. "The Sovereign LORD is my strength!" Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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