Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, March 10 (19:14)
“And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord” ―2 Kings 19:14.
IT was a “letter of blasphemy” sent from the God-defying Syrian leaders, in order to terrify good King Hezekiah and impress him with the hopelessness of attempting to defend Jerusalem against the vast armies of the cruel enemy. But Hezekiah found his resource in prayer. He laid the letter before the Lord and counted on Him to act for His own glory, and in a most wonderful way God intervened. Hezekiah knew to whom to turn in the hour of stress. God has said, “Call upon Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify Me” (Psa. 50:15). The promise was most blessedly fulfilled, as in every case where faith lays hold of the Lord and counts on Him to act for His own glory.
—Grace Troy.