When Dearest Dreams Shatter
By Clinton Manley
Many of us have been there. Standing in the middle of an empty room, your shattered hopes strewn across the floor like glass. … If so, you are not alone. Scripture is filled with characters who found indomitable happiness amid broken hopes, people who knew deep joy even as they swept up the remains of their most cherished ambitions. Habakkuk was such a man…
Habakkuk rejoices in God. He finds his joy in God. He may be deprived of goods and bereft of kindred, the land may be plundered by the Babylonians, and the wicked may seem to prosper, but joy remains because Habakkuk has the present good of God.
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