Day 209..."A fifteen year life extension...Isaiah appears in II Kings...The Lord is our strength and salvation...The most joyous housecleaing!"

The words of II Kings speak more to the heart today in chapters nineteen and twenty. I like the image of downward and upward..."And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this." After a prayer, Hezekiah is given a fifteen year life extension..."Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord, and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake.” The word comes that after Hezekiah the people will be in Babylon.
In the Book of Isaiah, chapter 12, is very hopeful...“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid;for the Lord God is my strength and my song,and he has become my salvation.” These words of hope I believe inspired the chorus..."First Song of Isaiah." We sing this at the Cokesbury at Summit Park Campus 9:30 service.

When was the greatest housecleaning of all time? Obviously, the woman who searched for her precious lost coin. She found it and there was joy! Have we considered the joy in Heaven, when we are found by God!