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It’s a new year and that time when many make New Year’s resolutions. How many have made at least one New Year’s resolution? How many have already broken your New Year’s resolution?

The most common New Year’s resolution is to diet or eat healthier. Sure, of course, all those Christmas desserts and cookies only added to the winter coat we already had. It’s time to eat better and make a new you.

Know what’s even better than being physically healthier? Being spiritually healthier. My prayer is that 2023 will be a year of revival, that we as a church grow deeper in faith and closer to the Lord. I have been so excited to see what God has done in our church in 2022, but God is not finished yet. There is so much more God wants to do in us and through us.

The beginning of a new year is a good time to reassess priorities, especially spiritual priorities. As you get another year older, you come to realize the value of the days we have been given.

Psalm 90:12, 14, Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom…O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

To number our days means to value them, that we may present to God a heart of wisdom. In other words, that our days count for something, let them increase our wisdom because we value and treasure what God is doing in our lives.

That brings us to 2 Chronicles 32. Hezekiah was reigning as king in Judah in those days. He was a good king. He was the greatest king since David. He trusted in the Lord and brought about a great revival in Israel. He brought reforms that even Solomon had not done. He used the days God had given him well. His life mattered. He made a difference.

Because of Hezekiah’s faithfulness and the revival he brought to Israel, God saved them. Assyria had almost destroyed Judah. Hezekiah prepared Israel for a siege. He engineered a tunnel to divert the Gihon Springs to the Pool of Siloam inside Jerusalem. It was 1,777 feet long and 30 feet underground through solid bedrock. Hezekiah’s tunnel is still active today, though so many walk through it that the water is not used for drinking.

Assyria laid siege to Jerusalem. Hezekiah then received a letter from the king of Assyria warning him not to trust in the God of Israel. But Hezekiah brought that letter to the house of the Lord and laid it out before God and prayed that God would save them.

God responded by saying, “Because you have prayed to Me about the king of Assyria, I have heard you. I will put a hook in his nose and bring him back to the land from which he came.” That night an angel of the Lord came through the camp of Assyria and 185,000 soldiers of Assyria mysteriously died.

Sometime shortly afterward, Hezekiah became mortally ill. That’s where we pick up our story. We don't know the exact nature of his illness, but we do know there was a boil of some type associated with it. Perhaps it was a form of cancer, we don't know for certain.

The prophet Isaiah came to Hezekiah with a message from the Lord, “Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.” There are life lessons and spiritual applications for us in this story. Teach us to number our days, O Lord, that we have a heart of wisdom.

I. Set Your House in Order

 Isaiah brought a message to King Hezekiah that he would die and not live and therefore should set his house in order.

 We use the same phrase today. When someone is facing a terminal illness, sometimes a doctor will say to the patient, “There’s nothing more we can do, you should get your affairs in order.”

 For many people, that means putting together a last will and testament so their family doesn't have to argue about things after they’re gone.

 But is that all there is? If all we leave is something that must be sorted out by a lawyer, I submit that we haven't left enough.

 In other words, wouldn’t you want to leave more than money and things? Wouldn’t you want to leave a legacy? A legacy that meant your life meant something; that you made a difference with your life.


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