Friday 9 Feb 2018

February 9: Isaiah 45:20-25

Key Verse: Isaiah 45:22
Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Devotion:
How simple are these words of the prophet Isaiah. Yet how often they are ignored! The instruction is so simple: “Draw near together”, “take counsel together”, “Turn to Me, and be saved”. God has been promising from the beginning that He would do certain things, all of which do come to pass. In other words, He has always told the truth – so when He says that He is God and we need to turn to Him to be saved, that is the absolute truth. It does not take too much reading to figure out just how true His Word is, yet people are not willing to pick it up and read it!

If we would just be willing to pick up our bibles and read them, we would find out a wonderful truth. Not only that, but if we are willing to be obedient before God, then we will find all the things of a normal Christian life just become part of our lives: the reading, the praying, the church attendance... and we will find we are happy to do them because it does fulfil our lives. Every being will bow before Him when the time comes – there is no escaping He is God and He alone is all powerful. We will all face Him at one stage or another – I just hope that you will be able to face Him with a clean heart, not because we can hope to achieve a clean heart by ourselves, but one which has been cleaned by Christ.

There is no way that we can gain righteousness other than through Christ. There is no better way to gain strength than through Christ. There is no better place to be than in His arms. There is no way God will turn His back on any of us who are willing to turn towards Him and accept Him back into our lives. He created us in the beginning. We have consistently shown we cannot figure out where we came from. He has shown how He can control our world we live in. We have shown Him we can break almost everything that we touch. But just like a loving parent, He is there to pick up the pieces – let Him be back in control of your life, don't try to run His life!

Points to Ponder:
Do you like telling people what to do?

Do you really think you can tell God what to do?