Hook, Line and Sinker

“Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand? Then they called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to capture the city.” 2 Chronicles 32:15, 18

Sennacherib, king of Assyria kept his promise and the battle was about to be on! This king used fear and intimidation to try to make his prey vulnerable in their faith and paralyzed by their fear. Doesn’t the king of evil do the same thing to us? We sit up on our “wall” of circumstances scanning the landscape of impending battles creating fear and discord in our lives when we haven’t even been attacked. It says that “they called out in Hebrew to terrify them and make them afraid.” I cannot help but to consider that the enemy calls out to us in our own language much like our futile king of Assyria did. Satan knows what makes us tick, what makes us weak and what makes us vulnerable. He speaks our language and uses his threats of God not coming through for us, not coming to save and not being able to be victorious in our situation.

I love a happy ending and this one definitely has one! The Bible says, “And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the leaders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king.” No matter what happens in our circumstances it will always be a happy ending if we are focusing on the eternal. Satan would have us focus on the temporary but focusing on the eternal brings us hope, freedom and victory.

All of us have either just come out of a war, are presently in one or will enter into one in the future. The promise is one that has never and will never be broken. “So the LORD saved…He took care of them on every side.” 2 Chronicles 32:22b

How does your battle taunt you? What does the enemy say to you as he stands at the edge of your kingdom intimidating, calculating and manipulating?

Don’t buy into the press!