“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.”

• Reinhold Niebuhr

Sometimes wisdom is learning to “Let Go.”  Margaret Rinck well said, “to ‘let go’ does not mean to stop caring, it means that I can’t do it for someone else.  To ‘let go’ is not to cut myself off, it is the realization that I can’t control another.  To ‘let go’ is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.  To ‘let go’ is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.  To ‘let go’ is not to deny, but to accept.”

The prophet Habakkuk had to learn to “let go.”  He had a godly burden for his nation and God’s people.  He cried out to God “how long…why?”  When God gave him the answer he wasn’t expecting or looking for he had to learn to “let go” and trust in the sovereignty of his God.

‘A living faith in troubled times’ doesn’t pretend to have all the answers.  Sometimes a ‘godly response’ is simply “waiting on the Lord.”   

The bible says, “But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength!” (cf. Isaiah 40:31)

Habakkuk came to this conclusion when he said, “I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.” (cf. Habakkuk 2:1)

Will you “stand your watch” in these trouble times?! 

In Christ Alone,

Pastor Rodney