Isaiah 37:14-20 – There is no problem too big for our God to solve

All of us want to experience victory over every circumstance that seems larger than we can handle. But whether we will secure the victory we desire will rest largely on where we go and seek it. As people who trust in the Mighty God, our first option must be to go to Him and not make Him our last resort. This was how Hezekiah responded to that crisis that was larger than he could handle.

Wanting to make a last-ditch attempt to secure the total capitulation of Judah, Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, wrote a daunting letter to Hezekiah. The content of his letter not only sought to undermine Hezekiah’s trust in God but also cast aspersion on God’s ability to save Judah. Any other person with no faith in God would be petrified after reading the letter but not for Hezekiah. His first response after reading the taunting letter was to take it into the house of the LORD and there spread it before His presence and prayed to Him. In doing so, he was demonstrating his total faith in God.

 

Calling on the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, the One enthroned above the cherubim, Hezekiah acknowledged God’s sovereignty. He recognized that His God was the Creator God who was in control over all of heaven and earth. The request he was making was not based on the merit of his own goodness, but for the name and honor of God. The king even asked God to take note of the derogatory insults Sennacherib had made against Him in the letter. Hezekiah also recognized that the record of Assyria’s conquest and superiority and knew that they had destroyed many idols of the nations. But he asserted that those idols were merely wood and stone products of man’s hand and were nowhere like the LORD, the true God. He then requested for God to intervene with His mighty power and deliver Judah from the hand of Sennacherib. Hezekiah’s objective was to let the kingdoms of the earth know that the LORD alone was God.

 

Like Hezekiah, when we know who our God is, and want His name to be honored, there should be no situation in life that will make us fearful, no matter how large it may seem to be. Our difficulty to solve any problem we face in life never rests in the bigness of those problems, but in how big we recognize our God to be. When we realize that He is with us in every circumstance of life, we will never need to feel overwhelmed in a single moment. Two questions we need to ask when we face what seems like an insurmountable problem are: (1) How big is our God? (2) Is He with us in that encounter? Remember, He is always available and wants to see us through no matter how big we see our problem to be. Victory is in our hands when we trust God to see us through!