“Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.”
Isaiah 39:8 KJV
As Isaiah recorded, “Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word YAHWEH has spoken through you is good and right.” For he thought, “At least for me, there will be peace and security in my lifetime.” Hezekiah, the reformer, went from being a man who was favoured by God and divinely healed to one who thought only of himself. Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his heart was lifted up; therefore wrath was looming over him and over Judah and Jerusalem. When people walk in the favour of God and become familiar with it, they treat it with that measure of entitlement that they deserve it because they’re superior to others! This is plain and simple pride when the heart is lifted up, just like what happened to Lucifer when he wanted to become like the Most High God. God said to him, “Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.” Pride goes before destruction. Let’s walk in the favour of God with humility just like Jesus did, “who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a Man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the Cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Let’s be like Jesus. Amen!
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