<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510511" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My 'Habakkuk' experience</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Things were bleak and the outlook was bad.<br>My soul despaired and my heart was sad.<br>No job and no income. How shall I provide? <br>I needed to know that God was on my side.<br> <br>'What shall I read? ', I said to the Lord<br>thumbing the pages of His Living Word.<br>'Read Habakkuk', He said to me so clearly<br>so I read my bible as He commanded me.<br> <br>I felt much worse as the first chapter I read<br>'This is not helping me', to the Lord I said.<br>'Read on dear Roy', the Lord said to me<br>and so I read on in faith, obediently.<br> <br>And then I found it. There in chapter three.<br>Written so clearly as though just for me.<br>It lifted my soul to the heavens above<br>and assured me of God's presence and love.<br> <br>'Though nothing on earth seems to bloom<br>and all appears to be doom and gloom, <br>no sheep in the pen, no cattle in the stall<br>and no grapes growing on the vine at all.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Though the olive crop does not yield<br>and no produce comes from the field, <br>even though the fig tree does not bud, <br>yet still my soul will rejoice in the Lord.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I will joy in the God of my salvation, <br>give Him all my praise and adoration.'<br>Here on earth 'The just shall live by faith'<br>for trusting in the Lord they will be safe.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The things of this world are so unreliable.<br>They come and go, they rise and they fall.<br>But heavenly treasures neither fade nor fail<br>outlasting all things they will prevail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Secure in the knowledge that God's in control<br>and that He's the keeper of my immortal soul.<br>I said to my soul 'Be not cast down or sad'<br>'But rejoice in the Lord always and be glad'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Royston">Royston</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510511" data-title="My 'Habakkuk' experience de Royston" data-description="Things were bleak and the outlook was bad. My soul despaired and my heart was sad. No job and no income. How shall I provide? I needed to know that God was on my side. 'What shall I read? ', I said to the Lord thumbing the pages of His Living W..."></div> </div> </div>

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