"Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!" (2 Kings19:22)
This would be a very bad idea!
I can understand Hezekiah tearing his clothes and covering himself with sackcloth. I understand that sense of frustration, of mourning, of grief at hearing the LORD mocked. I can understand and know what it feels like to hear the name of the LORD slandered; when God is mocked over and over again. It's harder to explain that feeling though. It's kind of a sinking feeling for the one who mocks; for the one who thinks they are a god that Almighty God has no power over.
Mocking God, defying the LORD, God Almighty just doesn't seem like a wise thing to me. In fact, it sounds like a pretty huge waste of one's life. God is God. Think you can beat him up? Think you can bully Him? You will lose... In the long run.. you will lose! The very sad thing it is not those who claim not to believe who mock Him. Most often, the ones who mock God, who deny and/or defy His power and authority are one who say they are Christians. People who believe that everyone who does good works is saved, but don't believe that you have to believe in the saving power of Christ alone. Christians who don't believe? That's not a Christian. And, if you believed, then you wouldn't be mocking. One would know better.
Hezekiah was faithful. It is good to hear of a man, a king, who trusts God and turns to Him for help. God helps...
On the other hand, the angel of the LORD struck down 185,000 in the Assyrian camp.
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life." (Gal 6:7-8 NASB)
This would be a very bad idea!
I can understand Hezekiah tearing his clothes and covering himself with sackcloth. I understand that sense of frustration, of mourning, of grief at hearing the LORD mocked. I can understand and know what it feels like to hear the name of the LORD slandered; when God is mocked over and over again. It's harder to explain that feeling though. It's kind of a sinking feeling for the one who mocks; for the one who thinks they are a god that Almighty God has no power over.
Mocking God, defying the LORD, God Almighty just doesn't seem like a wise thing to me. In fact, it sounds like a pretty huge waste of one's life. God is God. Think you can beat him up? Think you can bully Him? You will lose... In the long run.. you will lose! The very sad thing it is not those who claim not to believe who mock Him. Most often, the ones who mock God, who deny and/or defy His power and authority are one who say they are Christians. People who believe that everyone who does good works is saved, but don't believe that you have to believe in the saving power of Christ alone. Christians who don't believe? That's not a Christian. And, if you believed, then you wouldn't be mocking. One would know better.
Hezekiah was faithful. It is good to hear of a man, a king, who trusts God and turns to Him for help. God helps...
On the other hand, the angel of the LORD struck down 185,000 in the Assyrian camp.
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life." (Gal 6:7-8 NASB)
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