Faith for the Week: Yet I Will Rejoice
The Bridge - Faith for the Week is a moment to pause, reflect, and receive encouragement grounded in God’s Word for the days ahead.
Scripture (ASV)
“For though the fig-tree shall not flourish… yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength…” — Habakkuk 3:17-19 (ASV)
Reflection
This month started with a Psalm counting up specific mercy, and it ends here, with a prophet who has nothing to count. No fruit on the vine. No flock in the fold. Everything on Habakkuk’s list of what should be there is missing, and he says it plainly instead of pretending otherwise.
Then comes the turn: yet I will rejoice in Jehovah. That word “yet” is doing all the work in this verse. It’s not “because things worked out” or “since the harvest came in after all.” It’s rejoicing that stands in the middle of an empty field and chooses God anyway, with nothing yet resolved.
This is different from every kind of gratitude we’ve looked at this month. The weeks before moved from remembering what God already did, to turning back to say thank you for a healing already received, to staying grateful even when everything was going well. This week is the hardest one: rejoicing when there’s genuinely nothing in front of you to be grateful for yet.
The joy isn’t built on denying what’s missing. It’s built on where his strength actually comes from: Jehovah is his strength, the one who makes his feet steady enough to walk in high places he couldn’t have reached on his own.
Application
Name one thing that’s currently missing or not working out in your life. Don’t skip past it or soften it. Then say “yet I will rejoice in Jehovah” out loud, and let the gap between those two things be honest.
Prayer
Father, You are my strength even in what hasn’t come in yet. I don’t want to pretend the empty field is full. I want to stand in it honestly and still choose to rejoice in You. Make my feet steady enough to keep walking. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Closing
Whatever hasn’t come in yet, you can still say yet, and mean it.
