Habakkuk 1:5-6 (ESV Strong's)
“Look among the nations, and see;
wonder and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days
that you would not believe if told.
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth,
to seize dwellings not their own.
God Does Work We Do Not Know
Habakkuk was a prophet sent to warn the nation of Israel about the upcoming punishment brought by the Babylonians and because of the disobedience of Israel; God’s chosen people. Habakkuk had an issue with this. He wanted to know how God could use a wicked nation (even more wicked than Israel) to punish God’s chosen people, Israel! What he did not know was that God was doing a bigger work behind the scenes that mankind could not understand. God was doing a work to bring about redemptive history. Habakkuk could only see his own circumstances. He was looking at things through the eyes of the flesh ... like the present world views the events in history. However, God is giving him a message in this book that he should view the events of the world (and in his own life) through the eyes of faith. The eyes of the flesh only sees our current circumstances. But, the eyes of faith sees the present circumstances through the lens of the promises of God. God had promise to always have a remnant of His people. That will not change when the Babylonians come to punish them. But, their will be distraction as there’re always is for sin in our lives. Yet, God will come through on His promises. Faith knows this. Faith knows that God is always working behind the scenes. God is at work when we don’t see it. That is what faith is all about. Faith sees God working when we don’t see anything at all:
Hebrews 11:1 (ESV Strong's)
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Faith replaces what we can’t see. God is telling Habakkuk, “I got this!!” Faith believes He does when out fleshly eyes see circumstances that says He doesn’t.
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