Spread It Out Before The Lord

Author

Wes Schaeffer
June 23, 2020

From today’s reading…

Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it;

then he went up to the temple of the LORD,

and spreading it out before him,

he prayed in the LORD’s presence:” 2 Kings 19:14-15

Hezekiah was threatened by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who was a big, bad dude. Sennacherib died in 681 B.C. in what is now Iraq but not before placing a big “L” in the Win/Loss column after going up against lowly Hezekiah, a man of God.

When the odds seemed insurmountable, Hezekiah took his problems to God, and God took care of the rest. This is what happens to those who…

Stay the course. Keep the faith. Endure.

Now go sell something.