RESET!

Isaiah 38:1-6,8 TLB

It was just before all this that Hezekiah became deathly sick, and Isaiah the prophet (Amoz' son) went to visit him and gave him this message from the Lord: "Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die; you will not recover from this illness." [2] When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and prayed: [3] "O Lord, don't you remember how true I've been to you and how I've always tried to obey you in everything you said?" Then he broke down with great sobs. [4] So the Lord sent another message to Isaiah: [5] "Go and tell Hezekiah that the Lord God of your forefather David hears you praying and sees your tears and will let you live fifteen more years. [6] He will deliver you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will defend you, says the Lord, [8] I will send the sun backwards ten degrees as measured on Ahaz's sundial!" So the sun retraced ten degrees that it had gone down!

 

Reset means to set something up again, to cause something to return to a neutral state. It is to change the reaction of something or restore it to its original condition—to start again without any previous history.

Hezekiah poured out his grief to the Lord after he received a death sentence. With a humble heart, leaning on God’s mercy for healing and submitting to God’s values, he asked the Lord to meet his need. God answered and reset his life and destiny.

Reset demonstrates God’s grace and power because the control of destiny is in God’s hands. He responds to our needs by remaining faithful to His covenant.

While Hezekiah based his request and desire for healing on God’s faithfulness, God healed him and granted him a reset based on His grace and mercy.

God manifested His reset through the sundial! 

The miracle of the sundial proved that God will always be God—the only One with the power to adjust and redirect nature.

God can reset our destinies by setting them ten steps backward, just as He did with Hezekiah’s sundial.

Hezekiah’s sundial did not move backward naturally—that is impossible. Only with manual intervention or industrial magnetic mechanisms could the dial be turned backward. Hezekiah likely understood this, which is why he asked God to do something naturally impossible to prove His faithfulness.

Many of us face all kinds of frightening situations that may even make us question God’s authority and power. But as Matthew 19:26 reminds us, God specializes in the impossible.

Or perhaps the sundial stopped moving because it was stuck from rust due to lack of sun exposure. In the same way, many people—including believers—are stuck in life, in difficult situations, marriages, and other challenges because of a lack of exposure to the light and Word of God, according to Psalm 119:105. When we do not allow the light of God to fill us and His Word to direct us, we become stuck on a rusty dial, unable to move smoothly and graciously through life. Hezekiah found the opportunity to ask the Lord for a reset; we can do the same.

Joshua also experienced a reset—not just for himself but for the entire tribe of Israel in Joshua 10, when he asked the God of the impossible to suspend the natural workings of the sun and moon, giving them the opportunity to change the direction of the battle in their favour.

Hezekiah did not ask for anything specific—not even healing. He simply asked God to remember how he had walked faithfully before Him. And God, who knows the thoughts and intents of our hearts according to Hebrews 4:13, saw his heart and offered him a reset.

The Lord reset the sundial by moving it ten degrees backward. Times and seasons are in God’s hands and moving something ten steps backward or forward is not impossible for Him. God can move you from zero to infinity in the twinkling of an eye.

God has used the number ten from the very beginning to signify completion and perfection of His laws, principles, and order. For example:

- In Genesis 1, God said “let there be” ten times. 

- He gave the Ten Commandments to reset Israel’s judicial system in Exodus 20. 

- He established the law of tithing (ten percent) in Deuteronomy 14:22–24. 

- The Passover lamb was selected on the tenth day of the first month to reset Passover in Exodus 12:3, and the tenth day of the seventh month was set aside for atonement.

God can reset your situation, and He already has a reset plan for you—if you will dare to ask for it.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

Where in my life do I sense that I have become “stuck on a rusty dial,” lacking the light of God’s Word? In what practical ways can I intentionally realign myself with His truth and guidance? 

Like Hezekiah, what areas of my life require a bold request for God’s mercy and a supernatural reset—and am I willing to bring them before Him with humility and faith? 

What impossible situation am I trusting God to reverse, just as He reversed Hezekiah’s sundial?

PRAYER: Lord, please reset my life by Your mercy. Restore what is broken, realign my steps, and let Your light guide me into the path You have prepared for me, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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