How do you face a plague?

Locust by the billions: 2020 invasion in Northern Kenya.

How does a person stay faithful to God during a plague?

I love to read Habakuk. He faced three tragedies. One of them certainly was a plague. Probably caused by locusts. As a Grade 4 student in Africa, I watched in horror as these small insects ate anything and everything green.They wiped out farms. Nothing was left for humans or animals to eat.

Habakuk records such a scene with these words: "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, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet will I rejoice in God my Savior." (chapter 3:17,18)

Looking at this terrible scene of calamity, hunger and distress, you can see the progression.

Photos from BBC Article on locusts

First, the food source dries up: the fig tree is stripped of its leaves and buds. Then the crop essential to society for food, medication and soap, olives, disappears. As if that's not bad enough, animals die from lack of food. First the small animals, the sheep, and then the cattle.

People in general are having a more and more difficult time. Like those days of Habakuk, we are going through a time in which social situations are gradually getting worse. People are presently losing their livelihood, their jobs and for many,even their houses.

How did Habakuk face the future? What can we learn from him? He has a willing spirit. He depends upon the Lord. May we, like him, say the same thing. "Yet, I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior."

May we in our day, like his situation 2,500 years ago, rest in the Lord.