The Saturday Morning Post – It Gets Worse, But Has A Happy Ending

Today’s Passage – Habakkuk 1 – 3 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – click here to view the text from the Blue Letter Bible website)

(Second Milers also read – Revelation 13 – 16; Psalms 136 – 140; Proverbs 28)

Read the “0928 Evening and Morning“ devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

(Habakkuk 3:17-19) “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: (18) Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. (19) The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Good morning. We are in Quartzsite, Arizona, at the time of this post. We were almost out of food and provisions. On the way in we found an Aldi. When we food shop back in New Jersey, Aldi’s, is the first place we go. And we usually spend under $100. This stop was $250! Now we did buy a few extra things as we will be boon docking in the desert for a while, but still $150 more than usual? When we first started shopping at Aldi’s, we spent about $70. Gradually this went up and up. But God is good…

(Philippians 4:19) “But my God shall supply all your need according. to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

God is good to His children. If you’re not saved, you need to get saved.

(Acts 16:26-32) “And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. (27) And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. (28) But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. (29) Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, (30) And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (31) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (32) And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.”

You see…

(2Peter 3:9) “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

The best thing you can do is rely on the Lord. Trust Him to supply your need as He said He would. Put your trust in the Lord, He will not let you down. Let me tell you what happened to Jesus, in His own home town…

(Matthew 13:54-58) “And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? (55) Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? (56) And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? (57) And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. (58) And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.“

Trust God. He is the only way we can get through the mess in our country that is coming.

Peace! (But only when Jesus comes.)