PRIDE KILLS LOVE

The Lord loved King Hezekiah. When Hezekiah became terminally ill at the age of 39, the Lord healed him and gave him 15 more years of life (Is 38:5). The Lord even made the sun go backward as a sign of Hezekiah's healing (Is 38:7-8).

King Hezekiah loved the Lord. He conducted himself faithfully and wholeheartedly in the Lord's presence (Is 38:3). "He put his trust in the Lord, the God of Israel; and neither before him nor after him was there anyone like him among all the kings of Judah" (2 Kgs 18:5).

Then Hezekiah became proud (2 Chr 32:25). His house was no longer in order (see Is 38:1). He became deathly sick and didn't even thank the Lord for healing him (2 Chr 32:25). In three years, he fathered a son, Manasseh, and probably did a terrible job of parenting this child, for the son grew up to do "greater evil than all that was done by the Amorites before him" (2 Kgs 21:11).

The great King Hezekiah died a failure after having such a glorious reign. He fell away from the Lord because of the sin of pride. Pride ruined Hezekiah's love. Resist temptations to pride. Don't lose your love.