Isaiah 7-11
When Ahaz was king of Judah, he was faced with a potential attack by the combined forces of King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah of Israel. King Ahaz and his people trembled with fear. King Ahaz did evil in the sight of the Lord, yet the Lord had compassion on him and sent Isaiah to him with a message to stop worrying because the attack would never occur. God told him "Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm."
God continues to be patient with us and have compassion on us, yet he requires that we have a firm faith... a faith that doesn't depart at the first hint of trouble... a faith that can say like Job "Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" But since Ahaz didn't have the relationship with the Lord that Job had, the firm foundation of faith eluded him. How about you?
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