Clothed in Resilience: When Faith Carries You Through | Strength for the High Places: A 10-Day Journey Through Habakkuk 3:19

Habakkuk 3:19 in the New Living Translation says: “The Sovereign Lord is my strength! He makes me as surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the heights.”

How resilient are you? What does it mean to be resilient? How do you even know if you are resilient or not? Is it important to have resilience or be resilient?

All of us have a measure of resilience…even if you don’t know what it means…you have it…and it is a good thing to have, based on the fact that we have so many struggles in this life.

Resilience is the ability to recover, to bounce back when life knocks us down. 

For the believer, resilience is not simply inner toughness—it is the gift of faith that clothes us and carries us through…because we know that for some of the tough times we have been through, it could only be God why we are here today.

Habakkuk was surrounded by hardship, yet he declared that God was his strength. His resilience was not self-made; it was anchored in faith.

Isaiah 41:10 (NIV) encourages us all: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” 

God’s people do not endure by willpower alone; we endure because His hand holds us steady. Is there a witness? Can anybody testify to this?

Think of Job, who lost everything but did not lose his faith. Job 23:10 (NKJV) says: “But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.” 

Resilience through faith means trusting that God can turn the fire of trials into refinement.

The Apostle Paul also understood this. In Galatians 6:9 (NRSV), he encouraged: “So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.” 

Resilience is a determination not to quit, even when the journey feels long, because faith assures us that the harvest is coming. Glory to God.

Faith clothes us like armor. Ephesians 6:16 (NKJV) says: “Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.” 

When doubts and discouragement attack, it is faith that shields and sustains us.

Habakkuk’s declaration reminds us that resilience is not about avoiding struggle but walking through it with God’s strength. I am pretty sure if we could avoid trouble, hardship, pain, tough times, we would. Correct? 

Psalm 31:24 (NKJV) says: “Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord.” 

Courage, Family, rises when we place our hope in God.

So today, whatever hardship threatens to strip us of our joy or peace, remember: we are clothed in resilience by faith. Faith may not always remove the trial, but it will always carry us through it.