From 2 Chronicles 32 and 33

Hezekiah is exalted in the eyes of everyone around when the Lord accomplishes a great victory. All glory belonged to the Lord. People lined up to bring Hezekiah gifts. That should have humbled him, but he lets his heart grow proud. He should have remembered that his salvation was from the Lord alone. Pride looks to self for saving. We aren’t meant to save ourselves. We make poor saviors.

He didn’t honor the Lord for all the good the Lord had done for him. “Therefore wrath.” That’s a phrase for the fear of the Lord. If we become proud, we can expect, “therefore wrath…”

God will come against pride in His children because of its danger. God was near to Hezekiah when he had a broken heart and called on Him (Ps. 51:17, Ps. 145:18). But God knows the proud from afar (Ps. 138:6).

Hezekiah knew the right response and humbles himself, and he is spared from the wrath.

His son is proud and full of evil, but the Lord knew how to humble him. Manasseh learned the lesson the hard way, bound in chains. But he does humble himself greatly and God hears his prayers and restores him.

If God looked in your heart, would He see pride? “God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.”