"Tender Hearts before God" 2 Kings 22-23; John 4:31-54

Set this beautiful world aright for us.

Answer our humble prayers from tender hearts.

O God, ride the heavens to Mira's help, to all our help.

O God, turn our worlds right side up.

II Kings 22:19 - No better way to live than with a heart that is tender and a life that is humbled before God. I see such a tender heart in Mira Lainey in just two small years. May she humble herself before the Lord, the Divine Maker of a 3-pound miracle. 

Hezekiah knew. 
He became mortally ill. Isaiah told him to set his house in order for he was not going to make it. Yet Hezekiah replied to the God He trusted: Remember now, O LORD, I beseech you, remember how I've walked before you in truth with a whole heart ... and he wept bitter tears. There is no one like the God of Jeshurun who rides the heavens to our help ~ Deut 33:26.

And God changed His Mind, instantly. No waiting on this one.  

I heard your prayer.  

I saw your tears.

I will heal you.

We just don't know in this life what God will send, reverse, bless, re-direct. Our goal is not to control our circumstances, never to demand that we think we know what our Good God should do. God give us tender hearts, humbled under Your Mighty Hand. II Kings 22:19. Our ambition is God Himself.

PHOTO: Mira. Keep that tender heart all your life. You are absolutely the most precious thing to me!