Prayer
"Hezekiah the king , and the prophet Isaiah , prayed and cried to heaven" (2Chron. 32 20)
It was the indignity done to Jehovah that stirred these two holy men to the heart . Not that their lives , and the lives of their people , and the beautiful holy city , were in danger ; but that Sennacherib spoke against the God of Jerusalem , as against the gods of the people of the earth , which were the works of the hands of man . Oh that we were possessed with a similar zeal for God , so that we might look at sin as it affects Him , and lament over the awful wrongs which are continually being perpetrated against his holy nature ! What an argument this would give us in prayer! This constitutes a special reason why we should plead for a revival of religion throughout our land . Men speak and act so shamelessly , as though God had abdicated his throne , and was hardly to be taken account of . They sin against Him , with so high a hand , and treat his laws with so much contumely . Are there no Hezikiahs and Isaiahs who will pray and cry to the God of our fathers to do again the great works He did in their days , and in the old time before ?
Then the Lord would save us ,and guide us on every side (22). There never was a more conspicuous and glorious deliverance than when the angel of God wrought for Israel against Assyria . The Lord became a place of broad rivers and streams across which the enemy could not pass . As the mother bird settling down on her nest , He covered the city with his outspread wings . And the rich spoils of the foe were left for the beleagured garrison . Pray on beloved ; the Lord is our Judge , the Lord is our Lawgiver , the Lord is our King ; He will save us .
It was the indignity done to Jehovah that stirred these two holy men to the heart . Not that their lives , and the lives of their people , and the beautiful holy city , were in danger ; but that Sennacherib spoke against the God of Jerusalem , as against the gods of the people of the earth , which were the works of the hands of man . Oh that we were possessed with a similar zeal for God , so that we might look at sin as it affects Him , and lament over the awful wrongs which are continually being perpetrated against his holy nature ! What an argument this would give us in prayer! This constitutes a special reason why we should plead for a revival of religion throughout our land . Men speak and act so shamelessly , as though God had abdicated his throne , and was hardly to be taken account of . They sin against Him , with so high a hand , and treat his laws with so much contumely . Are there no Hezikiahs and Isaiahs who will pray and cry to the God of our fathers to do again the great works He did in their days , and in the old time before ?
Then the Lord would save us ,and guide us on every side (22). There never was a more conspicuous and glorious deliverance than when the angel of God wrought for Israel against Assyria . The Lord became a place of broad rivers and streams across which the enemy could not pass . As the mother bird settling down on her nest , He covered the city with his outspread wings . And the rich spoils of the foe were left for the beleagured garrison . Pray on beloved ; the Lord is our Judge , the Lord is our Lawgiver , the Lord is our King ; He will save us .
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