Today: [Isaiah 37] How Deliverance Comes. In our chapter today we find Hezekiah is sackcloth and ashes, and the city of Jerusalem about to fall to Sennecherib, king of Assyria. At long last the people are no longer clamoring for a foreign army to come and save them. Every possible avenue of deliverance has been exhausted and come to failure. Only God can save them now. Hezekiah sends word and Isaiah’s response is that God will come to their defense not for their own sake or the sake of the people. The people have no basis on which to expect God to act. They have rejected Him and rejected Isaiah’s words for decades now. Only when they are desperate without any other recourse do they turn to God. Isaiah does not say “I told you so…”. He simply says that for DAVID’S sake the city will be spared. This is how God acts in our life, for “JESUS’ sake”, not for our own piety or righteousness, that deliverance comes to us in our situation just as it does in this ancient narrative.
