Time is subjective. When we are young, the days of the year are snail-slow, creeping by at an intolerable pace. As we mature, the years become days, and we are pleased to see time move on. It is in our later years that we realize the decades have become hours, slipping by with each breath we take.
Can we ever regain the time we’ve lost?
In 2 Kings 20 Hezekiah was sick unto death. We don’t know the reason for his sickness, except that he had become filled with pride, and his sickness had come upon him as a result.
His pride hadn’t sprung from material gain or battles won. From the beginning of his reign, Hezekiah had been a stalwart devotee to the principles of God. He had initiated one of the greatest seasons of spiritual reforms ever, and God had blessed him mightily because of it.
The blessings became an open door for the evil one to plant the seed of pride in Hezekiah’s life. How is that like us? We come to Christ, read our Bible, and minister to those we come into contact with day by day. We see God’s blessing on our life. Yet, one day, we awake to realize we’re someplace we never intended to go. The days of God’s invigorating blessings have become years of self-fulfillment, and we have trouble finding where God has gone.
Can we ever regain the time that was lost?
In Verse 8 Hezekiah pleads with the prophet Isaiah:
“Give me a sign that I will be healed, and that God will be pleased with me once again.”
In Verse 9 Isaiah gives the king a choice of signs from God. Either the sun will jump ahead 20 minutes (losing part of the day) or the sun will fall back 20 minutes (regaining a portion of the time that was lost).
In Verse 10 Hezekiah replies:
“For the sun to go forward is as natural as the day. For the sun to reverse its position is impossible. Make that my sign.”
Hezekiah had chosen the hard thing.
In Verse 11 Isaiah cried unto the Lord, and it was done. The impossible became possible. A measure of the time that was lost was returned unto Hezekiah.
When we face a challenge and we need a sign from the Lord, we must not hesitate to ask for God to do the impossible. He tells us in Malachi 3:10 to test him to see if he is not the God of this world.
When we feel we have lost God, all we have to do is cry unto him, and he will prove himself to us once again.
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