"God Power is at work"

     " Because your rage against Me and you tumult have come up to

        my ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose and my bridle

         your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came"

                                            Isaiah 37 : 29

      The Lord responded to Hezekiah prayer through the voice of Isaiah and assured the king that He would save his people. Isaiah pronounced a declaration of judgment against Assyria for its boasting against God and its presumptuous belief that it could defy heaven itself by the power of its armies. As David wrote in Psalm 2, God thought little of Sennacherib's boasting: "why do the nation rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed. . . He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure."

      The Lord spoke to the king of Assyria and told him that he would not touch the city of His children, and that he had done a foolish thing to blaspheme the name of Jehivah. Sennacherib thought himself so powerful, but God was the one who made the city of Jerusalem: "Did you not hear long ago how I made it, from ancient times that I formed ut? Itis a foolish thing to think that one can tear down what God has created, for He has established His people and nothing can shake them when He stands with them.

      God's people will be under His continual protection because He has chosen them. It is as if He says to His enemies, "I have founded the church, and therefore the salvation of the church shall always be my care. I will not leave unfinished the work which I have begun, but will carry it forward to perfection." He reiterated this point in verse 35 when He said, "For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake." Because of the covenant He had made with His people, he would deluver them from their enemies.

       The Lord defends and preserve His work because it involves His honor abd our salvation.He is the Maker of the church, for we are His workmanship, created by His spirit. This work of sanctifying and glorifying His church is more excellent than the whole creation. God's love and care for His church never wanes. It was a foolish thing, therefore, for Sennacherib to think He could defy God Himself and destroy the city of Jerusalem, just as it is foolish for anyone today to think he can tear down the church of Jesus Christ.

        It is easy to allow worry to get the better of us when we conside the hostility toward the Gospel in today's world. We can attacks in the media, in the government, from almost everywhere. But while things may become more difficult, God will never desert His people. How can you demontrate your trust to sustain His Church?