“The Lord was ready to save me” [Isaiah 38:20]

“The Lord was ready to save me”. Hezekiah had let his life get into a mess. Perhaps not so noticeable on the outside, but enough for God to give him notice to put things in order. For this reason Hezekiah called on God to save him.
The Lord mercifully did so, with the result that Hezekiah could look back, not so much on the unsatisfactory aspects of his life, as on God’s readiness to save.
Today it is not to what extent we have failed in the past, for we all have known failure. It is whether in our past there have been occasions when we found the Lord ready to save us when we called upon Him that matters.
‘Ready to save’ means that we only have ourselves to blame if we do not receive God’s bounteous gift.