And Shalt Thou Be Delivered?

January 30    And shalt thou be delivered? 

2 Kings 19:11  Behold, thou hast heard what the kings

of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them

utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

This is plainly the language of an insulting foe; he had triumphed, and now he boasted, but his power was bounded, his pride procured his fall.

Often when in trouble, when distressed, when tried by a sense of sin and unworthiness, unbelief, and Satan join, and pointing to others who have fallen, and to our acknowledged unworthiness, insultingly ask the question, “And shalt thou be delivered?” 

Yes, Satan, we shall be delivered; the God of Hezekiah is our God, and He hath said, “I will deliver thee in six troubles, and in seven I will not forsake thee.”

We believe His word, we rely on His faithfulness, we plead at His throne: and so sure as He can deliver He will. He hath often done so in times past, He doth deliver all His praying people now, and in Him we trust that He will deliver us.

Not on account of any thing is us, or of any thing done by us, but because he hath said, “I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.”

He is faithful, His word cannot fail, nor should our faith be shaken. Deliverance is certain, for God hath spoken, and God is true.

The same His pow’r, His love the same,

Unmoved the promise shines;

Eternal truth surrounds His name,

And guards the precious lines.

James Smith