2 Chronicles 32-33; John 18:19-40

 Hezekiah tells the people, regarding the king of Assyria, that “With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles”.

Really?  You mean He will be with us?

Really?  Fight our battles?

Those battles of unemployment, underemployment, drug or alcohol dependency, foreclosure, spousal neglect, child abuse, insecurity, and the list goes on and on.

Those words ring as true for us today as they did when the king of Assyria was threatening to destroy Israel and Judah.  Read the rest of the chapter and find out how the battle goes, but I have one word for you-victory!  It was the kind of victory that no one could credit to the people.  They were facing an army that had never known defeat.  The Assyrians were so confident they were taunting not only the people but their God.

It was not the first time that Israel and Judah won a victory while being seemingly, hopelessly, outnumbered; and it certainly would not be the last supernatural intervention on their behalf.

I love that phrase, “Arm of flesh” referring to the Assyrian army.  The confidence in the Assyrian army was in their might and past victories.  They had no idea who they were fighting against this time.

Where is your confidence?  Do you take confidence from the words of Hezekiah?  Are you trusting the “Arm of flesh”?…  or “the Lord our God”?

See you in church tomorrow!

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