Habakkuk is a book of Scripture that we don’t talk about all that much. It’s one of those Old Testament Minor Prophets, one of those small books in the back before you get to the New Testament.

Easy to ignore, easy to not think about.

Plus it’s got a hard to pronounce and spell title.

(Please, those of you that know me, please refrain from making any jokes about my ability to spell.  Or use basic grammar.)

In this book, Habakkuk makes his complaint before God. And it’s a complaint we all understand.

Why, God?  Why are things wrong?  Why is their evil? Why do the evil triumph?  Why are the good harmed?

Why?

And he waits for God’s response.  And it finally comes in this passage from today:

20 But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him!

The Lord is Lord.  Yes, there are a lot of things I don’t understand. There are a lot of things that don’t make sense to me.

Yes, there is evil.  Yes, there is pain. Yes, there are things that my finite mind just can’t work out and work through.

Yes, there are things that I don’t know how to deal with.

But, God is God.

And He is in His Holy Temple.

And while I don’t understand all, and know all, and fathom all, God does.

And while I don’t know everything, I know this.

I can trust God.  He is able.  He is worthy.

He can be trusted.

He is in His Holy Temple today.  He remains on the throne.  You can trust.

No matter what you’re going through today, you can trust.

Habakkuk waited on God. And that was the response he received: Wait. He is God.

He is God.  He can handle it.  He is God.

Trust, today.