I don't care about the future

From II Kings 19 - 21:

1. It is awesome to see how God works. Hezekiah fully trusted the Lord that he would protect them and save them from the armies of Assyria, and he did!

2. I like how Hezekiah did not worry, but he immediately took his concern to the temple and spread it out before God to show God.

3. It is really amazing that God even extended the life of Hezekiah. He was truly blessed, because God gave him this type of extension. I cannot imagine any person who knows they are going to die not crying out to the Lord. Yet, typically God does not grant this type of request. I think that it illustrates where Hezekiah was in his walk with the Lord - how close he was and how devoted.

4. I don't care about the future - II Kings 20:19 is very troubling. I understand that Hezekiah was only worried about things during his lifetime. However, it is somewhat troubling that he would not inquire further of the message and try to do something to prevent the eminent demise of the nation. Not that I am sure there was anything that could be done, but he did not give it a second thought - rather, he only decided that it was good that there would not be trouble during his lifetime. I wonder: Was he having trouble with a rebellious son? Perhaps he felt that there was nothing he could do to reign in his son.

5. In II Kings 21 we see that it was indeed Hezekiah's son who really turned away from the Lord. He did not follow in God's ways, but rather turned the Israelites fully away so that they committed terrible things even worse than the nations that God helped the Israelites drive out when they possessed the promised land. I wonder if this could have been avoided if Hezekiah had taken a different attitude when God spared his life and then revealed to him a glimpse of the potential future.