"The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?'"
2 Kings 18:19 (NIV)
The Assyrian didn't know where Hezekiah's confidence came from, but a person reading 2 Kings 18:5-7 can understand clearly where Hezekiah's confidence came from. "He trusted in the LORD. He held fast to the LORD. He kept the commands the LORD had given Moses, and the LORD was with him."
Take these 3 verses from 1 Kings 18 and line them against our Lord's teaching in John 14 & 15. There is no doubt that Hezekiah is in spiritual union with the LORD, the God of Israel. Would you like to live in such a way that people wonder how you could have so much confidence in God? Trust Him. Abide in Him. Keep His commands and the Lord Jesus will abide with you.
What a great external victory was won for God's people by the confidence their king had in the LORD. But before the external victory, there was the many internal victories, as king Hezekiah continually and systematically placed the LORD as king over his innermost being. Faith and confidence spring from submission to Christ Jesus and spiritual union with the Saviour of our souls. Friend, may each of us hold fast to our Saviour this day.
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