I will take my stand at my watchpost
    and station myself on the tower,
and look out to see what he will say to me,
    and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

“Write the vision;
    make it plain on tablets,
    so he may run who reads it.
 For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
    it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
    it will surely come; it will not delay.

– Habbakuk 2

This jumped out at me in my reading this weekend. I was thinking about it during my walk this morning, about how often we give God very small and precise parameters to work within.  We so often assess the Almighty's performance in regard to our complaints and find His responses tardy.  We assume that since He has not responded in what seems to us a reasonable amount of time that He then is not planning to. 

Scripture so often says otherwise.  It says the vision is still good. It isn't delayed, it is just that our time is not God's time. So we are to wait, and not wait passively.  We are to station ourselves, to take an expectant stand and wait with confidence to see HOW He will answer.  For He surely will. 

Trouble comes when we start to get hung up on the how. "I can't see how this can end well."  "I can't see how this could ever be fixed."  "I can't see how I can ever feel differently." "I can't imagine this (person, place, situation) will ever change."  Lucky for us, God is not limited by our capacity to predict and direct. 

 This is my reminder to myself. This is all I have to offer in my letters to friends. We don't have to be able to foresee how God will work it all out.  Just know that He can. He surely will.  He, in fact, is. Romans 8:28

And His timing is perfect.