Lessons for a Day of Trouble

When Sennacherib and the Assyrian army surrounded Jerusalem and threatened to destroy it, Hezekiah the king sent a message to the prophet Isaiah, saying, "This day is a day of trouble!" Without question, those words describe the day in which we live. We are living in those perilous times Paul warned us of in 2nd Timothy 3:1-9. Apostate religion holds the world in darkness. And apostate religion always brings with it lawlessness, moral perversity, and brazen wickedness. In addition to these things, believers have personal trials which often come one upon the heels of another, which bring us personal days of trouble. What are we to do in the day of trouble? Where can we find help? How can we glorify God in the day of trouble? Read Isaiah 37 carefully. In this chapter Hezekiah teaches us some valuable lessons for the day of trouble. This chapter shows us that God's people are the apple of his eye, always under his care and protection, and he will both deliver us from all our troubles and destroy all our enemies.