It Is True

In Isaiah 36 & 37 Hezekiah receives a real test of his faith in God. The Assyrian king sends out a messenger to place the real fear of their resume before Hezekiah. The Assyrian king runs down all their successful campaigns reminding Hezekiah that all these were said to be lead by their "gods" as well only to meet defeat and have their "gods" burned in the fire. Hezekiah shakes in his sandals, the things the king has reported are true, maybe this will be the fate of Judah as well, maybe we should just take the deal and at least live. Isaiah 37:18-19 records these thoughts as Hezekiah goes before the Lord, but verse 20 is where real life changing power comes in: "now, O Lord, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God."

I wake up every day facing the giants, battles and enemies of the will of the Lord. Most of the time it is doubt thinking that the challenges of the day are far to large for me to overcome or even take on. I have sat and thought, what if I am wasting my time trying to stand up against the enemy, maybe he is right, maybe I am just to weak to show real victory, maybe the mistakes I have made in the past (which have brought me to this point) are too numerous to even be able to unravel, maybe I am asking for victories in life that MY resume cannot provide.

To all these things I am absolutely right, to each and every one. I am too weak, I have made mounting mistakes which have the ability to crush me under their weight, I am asking for victories that by all counts I should never receive, BUT all of these are overcome by the God I serve. The God who stood up against the GREAT Assyrian army to bring them down.
Hezekiah went before Isaiah more than once basically saying "I am afraid, and by my logic and reason I should back down", it through Isaiah that God cried from the heavens "I am ready to do something great in your midst so that the whole world will know that I am God and all I need you to do is just get out of my way!"