March 27, 2025, 2 Kings 19:14-19

March 27, 2025, 2 Kings 19:14-19

¹⁴ Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. ¹⁷ Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands ¹⁸ and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. ¹⁹ So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone.”

I love this passage. Hezekiah turns to the Lord God when he receives the words spoken by the king of Assyria. He prays! I hope that you turn to God with all of your troubles. He loves us, he ill protect us and, just as you want your own child to come to you in a time of crisis, God wants his children to cry out to Him.

Debbie Walker