While we are feeling good, while we are in good health. While we are prospering in our jobs, it might be easy to fall back on some of those props and think, ok, tomorrow will be a better day.

But let the LORD take away your health. Let Him take away your livelihood. Let Him put you face to face with the one thing that most people don’t want to talk about today and that is death. Coming to an end. Suddenly not having the temporal benefits and blessings that we enjoy day in and day out. I would ask you then. What would be your hope and stay?

You know, if it is not Christ, if he has not been revealed to you heart and has not given you that persuasion that nothing else will satisfy but His blood and righteousness alone, I will guarantee you, your cry will be much like these when it became apparent that this was a time that the LORD had ordained for their destruction.

“…how shall we escape?”

And notice. They confess it to have been a false hope. Maybe at the time it didn’t seem so false. You know, I hear people say that all the time. Well, you know, God is merciful. God is loving. Maybe it won’t be so bad after all. There is little expectation there. Their cry was:

“Behold, such is our expectation,”

Now that the LORD has taken that prop away:

“...whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?”

What we see here, dear friends, again, is how God is the King of Nations. You can use the word sovereign. Some people, you know, that has been a popular word today. So I am trying to find another way to say it.

Make sure it gets home.

He is the King of Nations.

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