Choosing Hope in Despair

Listen, God not giving you more than you can handle is not in

the Bible. For example, in Habakkuk chapter three. This prophet literally

watched his entire world fall apart. His country was being invaded, his people were

suffering, and he had every reason to give up. But then he

says something truly amazing. Though the fig tree does not bud and there

are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce

no food, yet I will rejoice in the Lord. So,

when everything is going wrong, even when there's no evidence that things will get