Do we feel cornered and do not see the exit? What can we do? (Part II)

2 Chronicles 31: 20-21
"Hezekiah did this through all Judah. He did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. All the work he began in the house of God, obeying the Laws and looking to his God, he did with all his heart and all went well for him."

We are not the first to happen to this ... The Word of God teaches us that there was a king who decided to do what is good and pleasing to God ... this king was Hezekiah.

"Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old. And he ruled for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. Hezekiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He did all that his father David had done." (2 Chronicles 29: 1-2)
King Hezekiah took courage and authority from the first year of his reign to restore praise and worship to the Lord:
"In the first month of the first year of his rule, he opened the doors of the Lord’s house and made them like new. He brought in the religious leaders and the Levites, and gathered them in the open space on the east side. Then he said to them, “Listen to me, O Levites. Now make yourselves holy. And make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers. Carry what is unclean out from the holy place." (2 Chronicles 29: 3-5)

"Then the Levites set to work. There was Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, from the sons of the Kohathites. From the sons of Merari there was Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel. From the Gershonites there was Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah. There were Shimri and Jeiel from the sons of Elizaphan. There were Zechariah and Mattaniah from the sons of Asaph. From the sons of Heman there were Jehiel and Shimei. And from the sons of Jeduthun there were Shemaiah and Uzziel. They gathered their brothers and made themselves holy, and went in to make the Lord’s house clean, as the king had told them by the words of the Lord. The religious leaders went in to the inside part of the Lord’s house to make it clean. They brought out to the open space of the Lord’s house everything they found inside which was unclean. Then the Levites took it and carried it out to the river of Kidron. They began to make it holy on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the Lord. Then they made the Lord’s house holy in eight days, and finished on the sixteenth day of the first month. Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, “We have made clean the whole house of the Lord, the altar of burnt gifts with all of its objects, and the table of holy bread with all of its objects. And we have made all the objects holy which King Ahaz had thrown away during his rule when he was not faithful. See, they are before the altar of the Lord.”" (2 Chronicles 29: 12-19)

He was a man who was hurrying to please God, so this was a great testimony for all people:
"There were also many burnt gifts with the fat of the peace gifts. And there were the drink gifts for the burnt gifts. So the worship was returned to the house of the Lord. Then Hezekiah and all the people were filled with joy because of what God had done for the people, for it was done all at once." (2 Chronicles 29: 35-36)
He cleanse all Jerusalem from all uncleanness:
"He took away the high places. He broke down the holy pillars used in worship and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the brass snake that Moses had made. For until those days the people of Israel burned special perfume to it. It was called Nehushtan." (2 Kings 18: 4)
And also he celebrated the Passover!
"All the people of Judah were filled with joy, with the religious leaders and the Levites, and all the people who came from Israel. Both the people who came from the land of Israel and those living in Judah were filled with joy. So there was great joy in Jerusalem, because there was nothing like this in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel. Then the religious leaders and Levites stood and prayed that good would come to the people. And their voice was heard. Their prayer came to the Lord’s holy place in heaven." (2 Chronicles 30: 25-27)

He was a great man of God!

"Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah before him or after him. For he held to the Lord and did not stop following Him. He kept His Laws which the Lord had given Moses. And the Lord was with him. Hezekiah did well in every place he went. He turned against the king of Assyria and did not work for him. He destroyed the Philistines as far as Gaza and its land, from the smallest town to the strongest city." (2 Kings 18: 5-8)

Everything went for him in a phenomenal way... however, "After these faithful acts, King Sennacherib of Assyria came to fight against Judah. His army gathered around the strong cities. He thought he would take them for himself." (2 Chronicles 32 :1)

What?! How can this happen ?! How would we feel? What would we do? Are we in despair?

To be continued...


God bless you and have an excellent day in Christ Jesus!

Roldan Ortiz Molinares