Today’s passage: 2 Chronicles 32:24-33
Helpful thoughts:
- Hezekiah, a man and sinner in need of God’s grace, grew proud.
- The details of this time in his life are recorded in 2 Kings 20 and Isaiah 38-39.
- By God’s grace, Hezekiah and Judah had been very successful. They enjoyed victory over their enemies, economic prosperity, they were accomplishing great engineering feats, and Hezekiah forgot where the glory was due.
- God disciplines the ones He loves…for our good! (Hebrews 12:6) It was better for Hezekiah to experience failure and be drawn to the Lord than it would have been to experience continuous prosperity and public acclaim.
Questions to consider:
- Did the omniscient God not “know” the heart of Hezekiah? Who needed to learn what the nature of Hezekiah’s heart was? What was the right response (Verse 26)?
- How would we tend to start thinking if we went on a long run of public successes? What would the people around us start to say about us? Why would we be so prone to start believing all the hype?
- What do our sins teach us about our need for God, the Gospel, and to depend on Him?