A Righteous God And A Savior
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a
chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the LORD, and there is no other. I
did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring
of Jacob, “Seek me in chaos.” I the LORD speak the
truth, I declare what is right.
Assemble yourselves and come together, draw near, you survivors
of the nations! They have no knowledge – those who carry about their wooden
idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. Declare and present your
case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it
of old? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other god besides me, a righteous
God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.
Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am
God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone
forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: “To me every knee shall
bow, every tongue shall swear.”
Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and
strength; all who were incensed against him shall come to him and be ashamed.
In the LORD all the offspring of
Isaiah 45:18-25
Where do you seek God? Do you find Him or do you have to search
high and low and then, through wasted effort, never find Him? Guess what? He is
right where He is supposed to be, and He is patiently waiting for us. Maybe we
go looking for God in all the wrong places. You will find God in His Word, in
prayer, and in the voice of the Holy Spirit who lives within you.
God rewards those who diligently seek Him. God really is where
He is supposed to be, and He really is waiting for
you, right now.
Have you been looking for God in all the
wrong places?
Our Daily Bread – September 17, 2008