Part of today's life journal reading says:

"Don't listen to Hezekiah when he tries to mislead you by saying, 'the Lord will rescue us!' Have the gods of any other nations ever saved their people from the king of Assyria?..." 2 Kings 32b & 33

As our world continues to get smaller we learn more about other cultures and people. We learn that they worship different gods. It happens in the life of a child as they get older they start to realize that other families don't go to church and don't believe like we do. As that happens the argument that creeps in, especially in our culture that worships at the altar of tolerance and accommodation, is that the god one person worships is just like another and one is no more right or true than another. That is the exact mistake that the Assyrian army was making in this passage. They assumed because they defeated other nations that worshiped gods that Israel and the God they worshiped would be just the same. But, as the Assyrians found out there is a vast difference between the things that men choose to make gods and the God who chose to make men. Let us not fall into the line of thinking that the value of that which is worshiped is equal simply because the value of the worshipers is equal.