Michelle
My mind kept straying while reading this for some reason. But this passage talks about Jerusalem's deliverance being foretold and Hezekiah praying to God asking to be heard regarding the king of Assyria. God hears him and tells of the fall of the king. Then Hezekiah prays to God again regarding his illness and that he will not survive it. God answers his prayer giving him 15 more years of life. When reading the prophets responses, I started to wonder if they relay the message received exactly or if they embellish at all. Some of them seems wordy and embellished a bit. I can't always tell if they are being truthful in their prophesies. The devotional attached to this section talks about a never fail disaster plan. Hezekiah's disaster plan was that he laid out the letter before God and prayed. The question at the end is, do you lay the situation out before God and trust him to show you what to do. This is very powerful. Do we do this every time and then listen?
I had to look up some words in this psalm. It talks of the voice of the Lord and relates it to many natural occurrences. I don't know that I have ever thought of God's voice in this way.
Julie
No, we struggle with laying it at God's feet and trusting him, and with listening to his Word. I am being tested in this right now and I will honestly say that I am trying, but I am struggling. What spoke to me today was 20:6-7, "Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land." Don't be afraid because of words that you heard, is where I am right now and I do pray that an end will come and these people will get what they deserve. I don't mean that in a harsh way...although I know it sounds that way.
The voice of the Lord is over all we do and experience, we should stop and listen and revel in the fact that he gives us strength and peace.
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