“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”
Isaiah 45:22 (NIV)
We need to remember this chapter - Isaiah 45
When the news has got you down - when everything around you seems to be wrong- Isaiah 45 reveals God in all of His glorious sovereignty - it reveals the truth
that our God is in charge on earth and that He has got His eye on us, always working for the good of His people.
Skeptics scoff at this chapter - no way could Isaiah have known Cyrus’s name - this had to be added in- they say, as they harden and harden their hearts and ears to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the gospel - just look again at verse 22.
But worshippers notice that this is the 5th verse in this chapter that declares there is no other god. It is true that we are in a spiritual battle every day, against our own sin nature, against the spiritual authorities in this world, even against those people who are being used by Satan to discourage and tempt us - and honestly, we are outclassed, we are doomed to fail. But God is the only real god, He is greater than all power, He outclasses everyone, and He is on our side! Not because we are right, nor because He owes us anything, but simply because He loves us with a love that will never fail - the covenant love we possess through faith in His Son and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I need to read Isaiah 45 more regularly.
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