“Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:18). 

Circumstances ought not to control our rejoicing. Our faith is often strained by the pressures that are brought to bear against us. When the fig tree is full of figs, our joy is because they are sufficient in quantity even with some to store. When the fruit and olives are plenteous, we have the joy of the harvest. The food is plenteous and the flocks are in their proper place giving us a reason for contentment of heart. But the delicate balance may shift in an instance. If all of life depended upon these things being in place, how fragile our faith would be. Some give up on life itself because things are not as we would have them to be. Others resort to desperate attempts to regain what appears to be lost. The most important thing remains and gives us a reason to maintain our faith and joy. The Lord is the God of our salvation and our strength. None of these things are capable of robbing us of the greatest gift we could possibly have. Once we are saved and secure in Christ, everything else will become elementary in contrast to what we have received. It is our salvation that gives us glimpse of the eternal. All is an interval in anticipation of what God has given us now and promises for our future.  God, in giving us what we desire, is not cursing us but giving us an opportunity to trust Him without having what others would consider to be the only reason to be. There are reasons that extend beyond what is seen. (Psalm 118:24). The Lord has fashioned this day for a special reason. He has also allowed us to be alive to see this day. There is something about this day and us to which we have been assigned. As we have entered into a new day, a day that never existed before today, an opportunity awaits us to enter in with intrigue.