Day By Day With Billy Graham 2 Kings 20:1 CEB 1 Around that same time, Hezekiah became deathly ill. The prophet Isaiah, Amoz’s son, came to him and said, This is what the Lord says: Put your affairs in order because you are about to die. You won’t survive this. 10 It’s easy for the shadow to go forward ten steps, Hezekiah said, but not for the shadow to go back ten steps. 12 At that time Merodach-baladan, son of Babylon’s King Baladan, sent messengers to Hezekiah with letters and a gift. This was because he had heard that Hezekiah was sick. Hezekiah said, They came from a distant country: Babylon. 15 What have they seen in your palace? Isaiah asked. They have seen everything in my palace, Hezekiah answered. There’s not a single thing in my storehouses that I haven’t shown them. 16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Listen to the Lord ’s word: 19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The Lord ’s word that you’ve spoken is good, because he thought: There will be peace and security in my lifetime. Ills of the Human Race Man condemns himself by his refusal of Gods way of salvation. In love and mercy, God is offering to men and women a way of escape, a way of salvation, a hope and anticipation of better things. Man in his blindness, stupidity, stubbornness, egotism, and love of sinful pleasure, refuses Gods simple method of escaping the pangs of eternal banishment. Suppose you were sick and called a doctor who came and gave you a prescription. But after thinking it over you decided to ignore his advice and to refuse the medicine. When he returned a few days later, he might have found your condition much worse. Could you blame the doctor? Could you hold him responsible? He gave you the prescription, he prescribed the remedy. But you refused it! Just so, God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith in, and commitment to, Jesus Christ. The remedy is to be born again. If we deliberately refuse it, then we must suffer the consequence; and we cannot blame God. Is it Gods fault that we refuse the remedy? Daily Prayer Lord Jesus, as You sat looking over Jerusalem, You wept. Give me the same compassion for those who have not accepted Your remedy and been born again.
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