In Second Chronicles, chapter thirty-two, verse one, after Hezekiah’s acts of faithfulness, the King of Assyria, Sennacherib, invaded Judah. Trouble and testing sometimes come to a believer who has been completely faithful and obedient to God. However, the assurance of faith is this: the one with us is so great that He can overcome all the enemy throws against us.
It is the standing puzzle of the Old Testament, how good men come to be troubled. Meanwhile, the ungodly men come to be prosperous. And although Christian men and women are a great deal too apt to suppose that outlived that rudimentary puzzle of the religious mind, believers should not think by any means that they have. For we hear men, when the rod falls upon themselves, saying, ‘What have I done that I should be smitten with this?’ Or when their friends suffer, saying, ‘What a marvelous thing it is that such a good man as A, B, or C should have so much trouble!’ Or when widespread calamities strike a community, standing shocked at the broad and dark shadows that fall upon a nation or a continent, and wondering what the meaning of all this heaped misery is and why the world is allowed to run along its course surrounded by an atmosphere made up of the breath of sighs, and overwhelmed in clouds which are moist with tears.
Whatever situation the godly person is in, the believer should thank the Lord and trust that He will carry His people through to victory. Avoid saying anything wrong as the Israelites did in the Old Testament. Hebrews thirteen, verse five, declares, ” Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” The Israelites made ungodly remarks to the point of talking about being doomed, and they received what they said, not entering into the promised land except for the ones with them that did not utter such things.