Here’s a great truth from King Uzziah’s life, one that every believer on the planet should follow as a model for their life: \u201cas long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.\u201d This is a promise of God that will be true for any person who applies it. In this chapter we find a list of what God did for King Uzziah, including giving him military victories, a growing national agricultural industry, and a strengthened national defense.<\/p>\n
That God desires to abundantly bless our lives is scripturally true. But it is also true that God hates a prideful heart. He doesn\u2019t ask us to think of ourselves as nothing, but to think of ourselves in proper relationship to Him. The principle says that as long as we seek God in our lives, our lives will prosper. They will be eternally<\/em> significant, which is of course the definition of true significance. When our life is spiritually dependent on God, we get out of this old world everything we are supposed to. God did bless Uzziah greatly, but the sin of pride in Uzziah brought his life to a tragic end. It is a classic example of what happens to a man who gets too big in his own eyes. As long as Uzziah walked with God, God fought his battles; but when he saw himself as important enough to do whatever he wanted, that blessing was removed.<\/p>\n During the American Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness, General John Sedgwick of the Union Army was inspecting his troops. He came to a parapet and gazed out in the direction of the enemy. His officers suggested that this was unwise and perhaps he ought to duck while passing the parapet. \u201cNonsense,\u201d snapped the general. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t hit an elephant at this dist\u2014.\u201d A moment later Sedgwick fell to the ground, fatally wounded.<\/p>\n “LORD, we remind ourselves of where You have brought us and where You want to take us. We recognize that we are nothing apart from You. Please keep us humble and seeking You this day.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 Chronicles 26 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.\u00a0\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0Sixteen years old\u00a0was<\/em>Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother\u2019s name also\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>Jecoliah of Jerusalem.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And he did\u00a0that which was\u00a0<\/em>right in the sight of the\u00a0LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the\u00a0LORD, God made him to prosper.\u00a0\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.\u00a0\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>exceedingly.\u00a0\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning\u00a0of the wall\u00a0<\/em>, and fortified them.\u00a0\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen\u00a0also\u00a0<\/em>, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah,\u00a0one\u00a0<\/em>of the king\u2019s captains.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>two thousand and six hundred.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0And under their hand\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.\u00a0\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings\u00a0to cast\u00a0<\/em>stones.\u00a0\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to\u00a0his<\/em>destruction: for he transgressed against the\u00a0LORD\u00a0his God, and went into the temple of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0to burn incense upon the altar of incense.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the\u00a0LORD,\u00a0that were<\/em>valiant men:\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him,\u00a0It appertaineth\u00a0<\/em>not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the\u00a0LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither\u00a0shall it be\u00a0<\/em>for thine honour from the\u00a0LORD\u00a0God.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0Then Uzziah was wroth, and\u00a0had\u00a0<\/em>a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the\u00a0LORD, from beside the incense altar.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had smitten him.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house,\u00a0being\u00a0<\/em>a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the\u00a0LORD: and Jotham his son\u00a0was<\/em>over the king\u2019s house, judging the people of the land.\u00a022<\/sup> Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which\u00a0belonged\u00a0<\/em>to the kings; for they said, He\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a great truth from King Uzziah’s life, one that every believer on the planet should follow as a model for their life: \u201cas long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.\u201d This is a promise of God that will be true for any person who applies it. 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