Remember Your Identity
Jeremiah 9:24 CSB – But the one who boasts should boast in this: that he understands and knows me — that I am the LORD, showing faithful love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these things.

Remember God’s Joy even in the midst of Suffering (Fruit of the Spirit)

Philippians 1:12-13, 18 CSB – Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually advanced the gospel, 13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is because I am in Christ….18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice

Philippians 4:6 CSB – Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Look Forward: See How God can use you for His glory

John 10:14 CSB – “I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me,”
2 Corinthians 1:8-11 CSB – “We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,[a] about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.”
Remember God’s Calling/Purpose
2 Corinthians 5:14-21 CSB – “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
  • 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

Look Forward to How God Can Use you for His Glory & His Amazing Work!

Application: Babylon brought clarity to Habakkuk.

John 15:2b CSB – “he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.”

John 15:5 CSB – “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.”

John 15:11 CSB – “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.