2 Kings 19:6-13
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

This was the test for Hezekiah. This is where faith comes into play. Isaiah delivered a sure message from God. God had pronounced what He would do and how He would solve this problem that Hezekiah faced. But then a message comes from the king of Assyria to try to discourage Hezekiah, to give proof, as it were, that what he was saying was what was true and would come to pass. He had conquered other kings and lands. He had dominated over other nations. Everyone knew how strong this army was. So would Hezekiah believe what he could see, or would he choose instead to believe God by faith in His Word?

This is the same kind of tool our enemy uses against us. He tries to convince us that God is not reliable and that we can’t trust in Him. He tries to get us to doubt the goodness of God or the power of God or the ability of God to help us in our particular struggle. And in some cases, maybe there is this visual proof that our situation is hopeless, that our enemy is too strong, that we have no chance and no choice but to give in to the enemy.

So these are our moments of faith, moments where what we know of God and what He has said to us must overcome what we can see all around us. What God would promise must be louder than the enemy’s lies. We must trust that God is faithful, that He is able, that He is true, that He is almighty, and disregard the enemy’s attempts to convince us not to believe in Him. When we come to our own crossroads like Hezekiah did, will we walk by faith or by sight?