[Habakkuk 1:5] The LORD replied, "Look around at the nations; look and be amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn't believe even if someone told you about it.

My PERSPECTIVE is limited, but God's VISION isn't.

[Isaiah 55:8-9] "My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. [9] For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

A God whose wisdom isn't GREATER than MINE isn't much of a God.

[Habakkuk 1:6] I am raising up the Babylonians, a cruel and violent people. They will march across the world and conquer other lands.

Sometimes the hardest part of faith isn't God's SILENCE, it's God's METHODS.

[Habakkuk 1:7-11] They are notorious for their cruelty and do whatever they like. [8] Their horses are swifter than cheetahs and fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their charioteers charge from far away. Like eagles, they swoop down to devour their prey. [9] "On they come, all bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand. [10] They scoff at kings and princes and scorn all their fortresses. They simply pile ramps of earth against their walls and capture them! [11] They sweep past like the wind and are gone. But they are deeply guilty, for their own strength is their god."

God's POWER over evil doesn't mean His APPROVAL of evil.

[Habakkuk 1:12-13] O LORD my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal--surely you do not plan to wipe us out? O LORD, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to correct us, to punish us for our many sins. [13] But you are pure and cannot stand the sight of evil. Will you wink at their treachery? Should you be silent while the wicked swallow up people more righteous than they?

Don't let what you don't UNDERSTAND erase what you do KNOW about God.

[Proverbs 3:5-6] Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. [6] Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

Trust has to come BEFORE understanding.

[Habakkuk 1:17] Will you let them get away with this forever? Will they succeed forever in their heartless conquests?

[Habakkuk 2:1] I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the LORD says and how he will answer my complaint.

Faith doesn't require all the ANSWERS; it chooses to keep LISTENING.

[Matthew 26:39] He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine."

Waiting on God isn't doing NOTHING, It's remaining FAITHFUL in the meantime.