When You’re Facing a Wall, Look Up and Look to God
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 2 Kings 20:1-21. Let’s go!
2 Kings 20:1-3 (NIV)
1 In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
3 “Remember, O LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
On verses 1-3: Hezekiah is suffering from a life-threatening illness. Initially Isaiah brings a message to Hezekiah from the Lord saying that he must get ready to die. Turning his face to the wall, Hezekiah prays, weeps, and pleads with God for mercy.
What can we learn from this? Just as Hezekiah turned and faced a wall and then prayed, when you’re facing a wall — no matter how insurmountable it may seem — let your first instinct be to go to God in prayer. Pour out your heart to God.

