PROPHETS & KINGS: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 29

The Ambassadors From Babylon

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWOozNggtlY?list=PL4ByrircmXL4AIWLkRrpeoEq_A6VmA54y

The story of Hezekiah's failure to prove true to his trust at the time of the visit of the ambassadors is fraught with an important lesson for all. Far more than we do, we need to speak of the *precious chapters in our experience, of the *mercy and loving-kindness of God, of the *matchless depths of the Savior's love.
Those with whom we associate day by day need our help, our guidance. They may be in such a condition of mind that a word spoken in season will be as a nail in a sure place. Tomorrow some of these souls may be where we can never reach them again. We cannot gather up the thoughts we have planted in human minds. If they have been evil, we may have set in motion a train of circumstances, a tide of evil, which we are powerless to stay.
The visit of the ambassadors to Hezekiah was a test of his gratitude and devotion. The record says, Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that He might know all that was in his heart. 2 Chronicles 32:31. Had Hezekiah improved the opportunity given him to bear witness to the power, the goodness, the compassion, of the God of Israel, the report of the ambassadors would have been as light piercing darkness. But he magnified himself above the Lord of hosts.