SCRIPTURE
"Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. 'Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.' And Hezekiah wept bitterly." (2 Kings 20:2)
OBSERVATION
Hezekiah had just received news, through Isaiah, that he was going to die. He turned his face to the wall to dismiss Isaiah and enter into a solitary time with God. We can picture him lying on his bed, perhaps in the fetal position, looking at the wall to block out everyone else in the room. Isaiah came back and told him God heard his prayer and saw his tears. Prayer goes from our lips to God's ears and the tears that flow from our eyes are seen by God's eyes.
APPLICATION
Huh, a man crying in the Bible. Who would've thought? (Ok. Jesus did too and that's good enough fro me). Hezekiah wasn't afraid to pour his heart out to God and neither should I. In fact, Isaiah did not come back to rebuke him but encourage him...God truly did hear and see. When I need to, God allows me the pleasure of turning to the wall (blocking out everything else in life) and praying to him. If I ever feel that I can't face another problem, I can face the wall, and meet God there. I don't have to travel to Jerusalem to find the wailing wall, it can be found anyplace I turn to pour out my heart to God.
PRAYER
Father, thanks for meeting me at the wall. Hezekiah reminds me again, that you are the God who hears, sees, and cares.
