After reigning fourteen years, Hezekiah became sick and near to death. He was about thirty-nine. The prophet Isaiah told him to set his house in order for he would die. Hezekiah prayed, reminding God how he had walked faithfully before Him, and he wept a lot. God answered his prayer, telling him he would live fifteen more years, gave him a sign, and told him that he would be delivered from the king of Assyria.

In Isaiah 38 we find a writing from Hezekiah following his healing. We read several expressions of his initial sorrows and of his gratitude to God for his healing. In verse 19 we read, “The living, the living man, he shall praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make known Your truth to the children.” How beautiful and how necessary it is to desire to make God’s truth known to another generation and to share the joy of salvation and life there is in God! We can be sure Hezekiah did just that with his son Manasseh.

Let us not wait to receive something more to glorify the name of our God and Savior. We already have everything in Christ! Let us not wait for extraordinary things to happen to us to bear witness to the truth. This may never happen. Have we not ourselves already been healed by God from the deadly disease of sin? Let us then rejoice in Jesus our Lord and Savior—yes, rejoice always—and open our mouths to “proclaim the praises of Him who called [us] out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet. 2:9) to this generation and the next one, yes, to everyone around us, for He is worthy of our praises!