Habakkuk 1:12-2:3 (NIV)__________________________________________________________
Habakkuk's Second Complaint
12 O Lord, are you not from everlasting?
My God, my Holy One, we will not die.
O Lord, you have appointed them to execute judgment;
O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
you cannot tolerate wrong.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
14 You have made men like fish in the sea,
like sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks,
he catches them in his net,
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
and so he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
and enjoys the choicest food.
17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
destroying nations without mercy?
2:1 I will stand at my watch
and station myself on the ramparts;
I will look to see what he will say to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
The Lord's Answer
2 Then the Lord replied:
"Write down the revelation
and make it plain on tablets
so that a herald may run with it.
3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end
and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it;
it will certainly come and will not delay. .."
Father from the day I held back my bible and commit myself to read your Word on a daily basis, I began to learn that everything is in Your time. I can do all the planning I want, but still, it is in Your time when You allow things to happen.
Isaiah 55:9 (NIV)I'm just a small man existing in a single time frame of the eternity that You've been. Remind me Lord, when I antsy over things, that prayers are all that I have to do while I wait for You.
As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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