Earth May Know That You Alone Are God

[S] 2 Kings 18:6; 19:19 --
⁶For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹⁹"Now, O LORD our God, I pray, deliver us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God."

[O] King Hezekiah's reliance on God was quite motivating to read here. He "clung" to the Lord without losing hope. He was disciplined to keep following Him and His commandments. He didn't go to God to negotiate but to follow what had been given to him through Moses. Hasn't God given me enough information to obey through the Bible? I really shouldn't try to bypass all that and seek for something new (and exciting). We live in the age of new gadgets providing the new surge of excitements (although short lived they are) and we very frequently fall into the same mindset of seeking after God. Instead of applying patience and endurance to follow what He had commanded me to follow, we seek for something new and exciting as if we graduated from the previous set of commands. Through Hezekiah's obedience, we see that God honors such faith. In verse 19, I see Hezekiah's focus on the ultimate purpose of following God which was so that the earth may know who God is. As I'm immersed into initiating the small group ministry at our church in a short duration of time, this verse gripped my heart because in the end I must pray this prayer that through what we're doing now, God will reveal Himself in the hearts of our congregation and then some. It's not about making this ministry successful (however that is defined to be).

[A] Keep reminding myself that every time I think about how difficult this initiative looks, it is not about making this successful but that through what seems impossible God would reveal His power to move us through such that all will know that it is God who's leading us through.

[P] Dear God, I'm clinging on to You now just like King Hezekiah did. I trust in Your power to come through. In Jesus' name. Amen.