“’I Have Heard Your Prayer

And Seen Your Tears’”

In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, “Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

“‘This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised: I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.

Isaiah 38:1-8

Hezekiah began wearing a seal as a symbol of God’s protection after the Lord healed him from a life-threatening illness. Hezekiah had been pleading with the Lord to heal him. God heard his prayer.

In the center of the seal were two sun’s shadows.

The people of the Bible learn, as we do, that we can call on the Lord, who will hear us when we cry out to Him. And even when His answers are not what we want or expect, we can rest assured that He is compassionate and He is powerful. The One who orders the movement of the sun can certainly move in our hearts.

Call out to God; He is waiting to hear from you.

Our Daily Bread – October 11, 2017