Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Isaiah 38:9-20
by: Jennifer Lewis Berg.
Hezekiah could be a godly, pious man. Here he wrote his thanksgiving to God for being with him during his illness and recovery. God sometimes allows serious illness to teach us to live a life more focused on Him. Illness can change our perceptions, narrowing those things that really matter down to a very few. If we are given the gift of recovery, we need to hold fast to what we may learn: God is good and the life He gives us can be good. In His love, God reaches down and draws us back from the illness and gives our new life to us.