Habakkuk Bows in Submission to the Lord

“Are You not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One?” Habakkuk exclaimed. Then the prophet’s faith laid hold of the precious promises that reveal God’s love for His children, and he added, “We shall not die.” Verse 12. With this declaration of faith he rested the case of every believing Israelite in the hands of a compassionate God.RR 138.6

This was not Habakkuk’s only experience in exercising strong faith. On one occasion he said, “I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me.” Graciously the Lord answered, “Write the vision and make it plain upon 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.” Habakkuk 2:1-4.RR 139.1