Don't Let Go!

 “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!”  ~Habakkuk 3:17-1

Sometimes it's easy. Easy to forget that no matter what we are going through, that God is with us and will get us through those hard times. Habakuk of old knew that. If his fields did not produce. If his flocks died. I am sure it mattered but his strength was not in what was going on around him. His strength was in in God.

And ours should be as well.

I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Psalm 91:2

You would think that after 70 years of life, and seeing all that God has done for me, I would have no fear for the things in my life that looks like my fields are empty or my flocks lying dead. And yet, I have to admit that for a few days I did forget that my strength is in God and not in my fields. 

To be honest, we had a wonderful week in our home state of Ohio. Things went very well for us even though what we had actually gone there for, was sad. My husband's brother had passed away early in the year and the family had planned a "Celebration of Life" for him, in July.

For us, while we went to that, we also took the time to visit friends because we don't know if we will ever get back there or not.

And we visited the church that we had gone to several years ago and that was a really good part of the time we were there.

It was after we got back that it seemed like things began falling apart. And yet, I know that the reason I have felt that way it is because I have been so busy that I have not been in God's Word enough to remember to rely on his strength and not my own.

Praise God that even when we aren't tuned into him, he does not let us go. And sometimes he even allows us to go through things that are hard, to remind us that he is waiting for us to remember.

And thank God, he forgives us and 'his mercies endure forever."

Not just for a day or a year.

They endure forever.

And he doesn't let go even when we do.

Thanks for coming by today, Friends. God bless!