37:17
Then Hezekiah tells God about the things that Sennacherib has been saying. Now God, of course, knows all this, and the prayer is perhaps as much a matter of Hezekiah reminding himself of the truths. One aspect of prayer is not telling God what to think, but getting our own thinking straightened out. Sennacherib had ridiculed God, and Hezekiah did not expect God to stand idly by, just letting this pass.
37:18,19
Hezekiah's faith was not based on ignoring the reality of what had happened. He knew full well that Assyria had indeed conquered many nations, and their gods had proved utterly useless. But the reason for this was these "gods" were no gods at all, but merely the works of man made out of wood and stone. So they were destroyed. Look at the difference here. The way things are supposed to be: God has created us and we ae to worship Him. The way things often are: We "create" something and we worship it, saying "this thing I have created will save us". Also note what faith is and what it is not. Hebrews says it is evidence of things unseen. This does not mean that we ignore or deny the reality of what we see, but that we see beyond it. It is the difference between a materialistic worldview, which says that what we see is all there is, and a theistic worldview.
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