From today's reading: Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will exult in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:17-18.
There is a song based on this scripture called "I will rejoice in the Lord Alway." In my experience, you either love it because it's fun to sing (and maybe it speaks to your experience) or you hate it because of what it says. It basically says that you are to rejoice in the Lord in all things - even when your life appears to be going to hell in a hand-basket.
I believe part of what we have to understand is that things happen in this life that are not good and do not seem to come from God. We will not always get our own way, and outside influences on us can have bad - even disastrous - effects. These are the times when we begin to question if God really cares. I'm sure when Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and later sitting in jail in Egypt without any hope of getting out, that it wasn't always easy to believe God was going to redeem that situation. But He did, and He used it to place Joseph where he needed to be in order to save his brothers and his whole extended family.
When we have no control over our circumstances, we have to remember that God really does care what is happening to us. And if we place our trust in Him, He will make us strong enough to meet the challenge and will ultimately bring about blessing and good from this experience; maybe not immediately, but eventually. What we can rejoice in is that even when we are powerless, God is still God and He does care what happens to us.
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