What's Really in Your Heart?
As long as things are going well for us, we can sail through life and do pretty well. When we are seeing good things happen, and we are not running into obstacles, we can tend to put ourselves on automatic pilot. Then, we stop trusting God the way we should. It is when the trials come that we are jolted back to the realization that we need the Lord every minute of every day, so we can never allow our heart to depart from focusing on Him. I am afraid that is what King Hezekiah did near the end of his life. He had been successful because of God's blessings, so he showed off to the people who came from far away Babylon. (II Chronicles 32:31) "When ambassadors from Babylon arrived to ask about the remarkable things that had taken place in the land, God withdrew from Hezekiah in order to test him and to see what was really in his heart." I believe God does this to us at various times, too. When we become a Christian, God is always with us. The Holy Spirit comes to live in us....