"Do It Heartily"

2 Chronicles 31:21  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 8
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“In every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered” (2 Chron. 31:2121And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered. (2 Chronicles 31:21) JND).
In my daily reading this morning, my attention was called to this verse. I wondered why what I do sometimes does not prosper. How instructive! Hezekiah did it with all his heart.
How often our efforts are perfunctory-halfhearted. May the Lord stir us with the example of this dear man who did so much to restore Judah (and some from throughout all Israel) to the worship of Jehovah.
I was struck, too, with Hezekiah’s gracious prayer of intercession for the people. He prayed for them, saying, “Jehovah, who is good, forgive everyone that has directed his heart to seek God, Jehovah the God of his fathers, although not according to the purification of the sanctuary. And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people” (2 Chron. 30:18-2018For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one 19That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 20And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. (2 Chronicles 30:18‑20) JND).
R. K. Gorgas