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I like this verse because there is only one God and to get to him you have to go through Jesus. We only serve one God and yes we must sacrifice our own personal decisions because we need to give everything to God and trust in him to make a way for us; just like he did for Hezekiah. God wants us to have a personal relationship with him and if we just follow Him and trust Him then we can have peace, love and happiness in our lives! 😇

I guess in the Assyrian's thinking, Hezekiah's reforms had really displeased God, so he shouldn't expect help from the LORD God of Israel. The Assyrian would say, "Look at all the places there used to be where people would worship the LORD God of Israel. Now, since Hezekiah came in, there is only one place. More is always better, so the LORD God of Israel must be pretty sore at Hezekiah!" Our enemy has an amazing way of discouraging our obedience. Hezekiah was wise enuf not to buy into this argument of the Assyrian. It was typical demonic logic through and through. "The gods of other nations haven't been able to protect them against us. Your God is just like one of them, and can't protect you either. Judah could've started planning the victory party right then and there, when the Assyrian wrote so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand. It's one thing to speak against Judah, its people and leaders. It was another thing all together to mock the LORD God of Israel this way, and count Him as "just another god," cuz surely they done gone and made Him mad now.