Happy New Year! I have noticed that time flies by for those who stay busy. It wouldn’t surprise me if that is why some people can spend hours doing nothing. It makes them feel that their lives are passing slowly. Folks, depressed people are the ones that are content to remain unoccupied doing things. Their depression deepens day by day as the years go by.
Enough of that. Today, we will take another look at the prophecy of Habakkuk. Remember that the book foretells the judgment of God upon Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Nineveh was destroyed by the Babylonians. This is the city that God sent Jonah to. They repented and God let them continue for about 200 more years.
We live in an environment which promotes instant gratification. God doesn’t work that way. We must learn to wait for the LORD to reveal His will or act in response to our plea. Notice Habakkuk 2:2 4,”Then the LORD answered me and said: Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.” I like what God tells us in
Isaiah 40:31, “they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
That is how your faith in God manifests itself. You do not try to force God to work at your schedule. You are willing to wait until you are sure that God is active and working in your life.
How good are you at waiting?