“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.”
Isaiah 38:4-5
Isaiah 38 gives us some lessons on delivering and receiving
a word from the Lord.
Isaiah delivered a word to the King that was a
difficult word to give and to receive.
He told the King he needed to get himself ready
because he was going to die.
Just delivering the word could have cost Isaiah his
life nonetheless he was faithful to deliver it just as he had received it.
King Hezekiah received the word but did not ‘kill the
messenger’.
He received it as from the Lord.
His response was to take it back to the Lord in prayer.
There is no record of an additional conversation
between the King and the Prophet of God until the Prophet returns and delivers
the good news that God has given the King 15 more years of life.
Again the King showed his great respect for the office
of the Prophet by receiving the word delivered but offering, in prayer, his
thanksgiving to the Lord who originated the word.
So much we can learn from those examples but lets’
take just one lesson away today and that is to recognize that God still speaks
to His people prophetically and through the office of the Prophet.
Let’s honor the Lord by acknowledging that!
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