Today: [Isaiah 39] Never Lay Down in a Battle Zone. In this chapter, we see Hezekiah basking in the afterglow of great deliverance and personal rescue by the hand of God. An army of 180,000 has been destroyed supernaturally by the hand of God. Hezekiah is instantaneously healed from a deadly disease by the word of the Lord through Isaiah. Then in the aftermath of this great time of testimony, Hezekiah shows a remarkable lapse in judgment by receiving emissaries who come from the king of Babylon to commend his welfare. Because of not staying vigilant, the pathway is opened for the eventual and total destruction of Judah, Jerusalem, and the temple. The lesson for us is that evil never sleeps. Even in the midst of great victory, Satan often comes to trip us up and lay snares before us. Even when the enemy seems to have retreated and totally destroyed our hand must ever remain at the ready on the sword of the Spirit in our lives.
