254 - "Hold Fast" 2 Chronicles 29-30; Acts 19:21-41

   

Hezekiah was a man who "held fast to the Lord."  What does that mean to you, to me?  Hold fast.  "And the Lord was with him, wherever he went out, he prospered."  

Hezekiah started his reign awful young, at 25.  Yet he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord according to all that his father David had done.  None like him among all the kings of Judah, before or after. 

What did this king know about following God that most people don't know.

Two things he knew:

1. The Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him. 2 Chron 30:9

2. The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord. 2 Chron 30:12

May the good Lord pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers.  2 Chron 30:19.  Oh God, please forgive us!  Pardon our ways of not remembering You in all we do.  

Let us not be dismayed; the Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters; he can still the rage whether it be in my own heart or those I disturb. Acts 19:41. There is so much noise in my life.   My God is mightier." 

Father, the town is disrupted by disputes.  The proconsul is called on to settle the disputes.  Even the town clerk's reasoning shows that the Gospel aligns with the Roman law.  It is no disruptor of order.  And we all know the scene too well in our own hearts.  Reasoning flies out the window.  Father, disrupt our lives for good.  Make us keepers of the truth.

PHOTO:  8 years ago, A friend told me on a very dark night: Hold fast. I never forgot that moment. I need that moment tonight. Walking on this beach in Pensacola Beach.