King Hezekiah had much to rejoice about in his reign. So the service of the temple of the Lord was reestablished. Hezekiah and the people rejoiced at what God had brought about for His people, because it was done so quickly.
I love that God did restored joy so quickly to the Israelites. There obedience and willingness to draw near to God brought peace among their nation.
Hezekiah only asked that the people come back to the Lord the God of their fathers. A very loud crowd assembles in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Rejoicing they sang to the Lord every day, accompanied by the Lord's instruments of praise. They rejoiced so much so that they agreed to stay seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully.
The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel, even others from different lands. There was GREAT JOY IN JERUSALEM. Since the days of Solomon (maybe the time they rejoiced over the temple building, I wrote about recently) there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.
The priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them for their prayer reached heaven his holy dwelling place.
How amazing that we can know because of this story that our prayers reach heaven God's holy dwelling place.
Expect peace in your land when we faithfully follow Christ. Troubles come and go but the Lord is steady and reliable.
As we come to Easter. Let us remember events that happened surrounding the death of Jesus.
Before, during, after.
Each part of the story is valuable and relevant for our everyday life. As we look at the characters, what they were doing, what was going on in the culture, what Jesus accomplished with the disciples all play the part of the story. Jesus surrounded himself with women who evangelized and proclaimed the His coming. All worth noting for us today.
Let's pray: Father in heaven may your kingdom come again. May we see the daily will for our life. May we walk faithfully with you. Amen.
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