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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

In recent visits we started to dissect Hezekiah’s prayer in Isaiah 37:15-20.  He began by praising God.  Then he pressed his case that the Assyrian king had insulted the living God with his threatening letter.  

With the letter spread out before him he implored God to listen and look at what the king had written.  
He didn’t gloss over a major point made by the Assyrian king – none of the gods of the nations he had conquered were able to resist his attack.  That was true.  Hezekiah knew that those gods were nothing but wood and stone carved by human hands. 

Then Hezekiah presses his point on a personal level, “Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God” (verse 20). 

His point was twofold: the Assyrian king’s god is no greater than the god’s of the nations he had vanquished.  But “our God,” our personal God, the living God, the God of Israel, alone is God. 

Putting the living God on a par with idols is an insult.  And considering himself and his god as superior to the living God is grounds for God to vindicate His name and honor.  He could do that by delivering Hezekiah and his people from the hands of this heathen king.  This would show all kingdoms on earth that there is only one true and living God – the God of Israel. 

In one sense Hezekiah was in desperate straights with his back against the wall.  In another sense he was in a position of advantage.  If he focused on the threat, he had reason to fear.  If he focused on God, he was fearless and strong.  His prayer gave him the right focus.  

That’s powerful praying.

 

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