Why Words Comfort

2 Chronicles 32:8 KJV

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Under such incredible pressure as facing the Assyrians, the nation that had defeated nearly every nation neighboring Judah, including annihilating the northern kingdom of Israel, Hezekiah was able to comfort the people so that they rested themselves upon his words. What made his words so powerful?

Hezekiah did what was right in the sight of the Lord

2 Chronicles 29:2 KJV

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

Hezekiah walked according to those things David had done

2 Chronicles 29:2 KJV

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

Hezekiah had a track record of leading the nation in godliness

2 Chronicles 29:3-5 KJV

He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

Hezekiah’s prayers had been previously answered

2 Chronicles 30:17-20 KJV

For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

They had every reason to trust Hezekiah because Hezekiah had proven to them that he trusted the Lord.

The one best able to comfort us when we are in any trouble is the one we have watched walk with God before there was trouble.