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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Kings 19:1-13
Faced with the assault of the Assyrian armies, Hezekiah has a strange way of conducting the war. Instead of putting on a suit of armour, he puts on sackcloth. His headquarters are not on the rampart which he built, but in the house of the LORD. Finally, instead of calling on the bravest of his soldiers, he turns to the prophet Isaiah! But, in contrast with the haughtiness and pride of the king of Assyria, was not this good military strategy as taught by the apostle Paul? "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal", he writes in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, "but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God". Hezekiah, whose name means "the power of the LORD", knows to whom to go to find help (Psalms 121:2). His confidence is not disappointed. "Be not afraid . . ." the prophet answers him — a precious saying which we hear so often in the Bible, especially from the mouth of the Lord: "Be not afraid, only believe . . ." (Mark 5:36). He has the tongue of the learned to sustain by a word him that is weary (Isaiah 50:4). The fearful yet confident soul of the redeemed, while still undergoing trial, receives through this word the strength and courage necessary to wait for deliverance.
