and station myself on the rampart;
I will keep watch to see what He will say to me,
and what He will answer concerning my complaint.
Then the LORD answered me and said:
‘Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so that a runner may read it.
For there is a vision for the appointed time;
it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay.’” (Habakkuk 2:1-3)
The writer Anthony Padovano once observed that
"we wait for everything that is really worth having . . . we even wait for
God." Waiting in the Biblical
tradition is not passive or forgetful, but active, eager, yearning, and
engaged. Habakkuk determines to wait on
God for the Resolution of his crisis; God, in turn, bids him, "If it seems
to tarry, wait." What are you
waiting for most fervently for yourself? For your loved ones? Your church?
Your community? The world? Name these things before God in prayer,
claiming God's promises.
-- Paul L. Escamilla in Spiritual Formation Bible
-- NIV
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