"How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?" - Habakkuk 1:2 (NIV)
"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?" - Habakkuk 1:13 (NIV)
Who are we to question God? Remember Job.
"Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said: "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me."" - Job 38:1-3 (NIV)
"The LORD said to Job: "Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!"" - Job 40:1-2 (NIV)
2. Waiting in Humility
"I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and
"See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright - but the righteous will live by his faith." - Habakkuk 2:4 (NIV)
Haughtiness vs Humility
"You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty." - Psalm 18:27 (NIV)
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." - Psalm 51:17 (NIV)
"My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore." - Psalm 131:1-3 (NIV)
3. Waiting in Hope
"LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy." - Habakkuk 3:2 (NIV)
"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Saviour. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights." - Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)
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