not been impeded at all. God’s purpose cannot be thwarted.”173 The prophet’s humanity demanded that God provide a warning about impatience, one even more important to people living in the exhausting pace of modern society. Whether in prayer or prophecy, contemporary worshipers demand that God act according to the dizzying schedule of those pressed for time. God reminded the prophet of the certainty of the message174 but without the promise of meeting Habakkuk’s time schedule. “It does not mean