Hezekiah

This week I was putting together a message for a Campus Crusade TNT meeting in case I'm ever asked to give a talk. I figured even if I never speak it, when you are going to teach something to someone, you end up learning a lot about it yourself, so I knew it would help me whatever it was. I decided I wanted to trust God a lot more with everyday things, so I decided to work on a message about trusting God. It certainly was really worth it! I wrote down Bible verses that sort of related to what I was talking about according to the little notes my concordance had. I looked them up and crossed out the unrelated ones and circled the ones that apply. However, the one longer section I wanted to use as my base wasn't quite what I was looking for.

So, later on, I looked on Bible Gateway.com and searched for Trust and it brought up a passage in II Kings chapters 18-20... actually only one verse but I read around that verse for context because the verse really struck me. It was all about Hezekiah. Now I've heard the name Hezekiah and am sure I've been told about him, but I wasn't really paying attention apparently because I didn't know anything about him. He was a King of Judah that walked with the Lord. He trusted God in everything and followed God closely. When the Assyrians were going around conquering areas surrounding them, it looked bleak. Hezekiah told everyone to Trust the Lord to deliver them from the hands of the Assyrians who had a much greater army than his.

However, a commander in the Assyrian army I think told everyone not to listen to Hezekiah when he told them to trust the Lord. He said the Lord could not be trusted to do something so big. Essentially, he mocked both God and Hezekiah. It reminds me of Galations 6:7 - "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." So the angel of the Lord came out and destroyed 185,000 men of the Assyrian camp. One Hundred and eighty five THOUSAND. Hezekiah didn't have to do ANYTHING but Trust God. He trusted God completely and God delivered.

I beg you, whether you've read it or not to read II Kings chapters 18-20. It's so much better when you read about the whole story. God is great and does great things. We just need to trust him and walk with him!