a mere housewife
Not your cup of tea
I was thinking today what a relief it is, when so much in life is uncertain -- when we are bound to experience difficult and often mercifully changeable responses -- to know that joy in our Saviour is and always will be appropriate.
-from Matthew Henry's commentary on Habakkuk 3
. . . those who, when they were full, enjoyed God in all, when they are emptied and impoverished can enjoy all in God, and can sit down upon a melancholy heap of the ruins of all their creature comforts and even then can sing to the praise and glory of God, as the God of their salvation. This is the principal ground of our joy in God, that he is the God of our salvation, our eternal salvation, the salvation of the soul; and, if he be so, we may rejoice in him as such in our greatest distresses, since by them our salvation cannot be hindered, but may be furthered. Note, Joy in God is never out of season, nay, it is in a special manner seasonable when we meet with losses and crosses in the world, that it may then appear that our hearts are not set upon these things, nor our happiness bound up in them.
-from Matthew Henry's commentary on Habakkuk 3