“Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.” (v.22)
Back in Genesis sin enter the world through the gateway of the eye, with a look of desire upon the wrong object. Eve, who was told not to eat of the tree of good and evil, saw that the tree was good for food and pleasant to the eyes. Then, distrusting God’s warning, she ate, and thus sin entered the world.
Here in our text the prophet Isaiah is relaying God’s Word to the people saying, “salvation comes from looking unto Jehovah.” O, you can look to someone else, just as Eve did, or choose to go your own way not believing in God at all. But here’s the catch found in the second have of our text,
So what do you do with that? Discount it, roll the dice and hope that it isn’t true? Or Look to God and be saved? That’s up to your free will. But, as for me and my house, we will look to Jesus for our hope, our salvation, and I hope you will too.
The Truth: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:2)
Back in Genesis sin enter the world through the gateway of the eye, with a look of desire upon the wrong object. Eve, who was told not to eat of the tree of good and evil, saw that the tree was good for food and pleasant to the eyes. Then, distrusting God’s warning, she ate, and thus sin entered the world.
Here in our text the prophet Isaiah is relaying God’s Word to the people saying, “salvation comes from looking unto Jehovah.” O, you can look to someone else, just as Eve did, or choose to go your own way not believing in God at all. But here’s the catch found in the second have of our text,
“For I am God, and there is no other. I have sworn by Myself;The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath. He shall say, ‘Surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength. To Him men shall come, And all shall be ashamed Who are incensed against Him. In the Lord all the descendants of Israel Shall be justified, and shall glory’ ” (vv.22-25)
So what do you do with that? Discount it, roll the dice and hope that it isn’t true? Or Look to God and be saved? That’s up to your free will. But, as for me and my house, we will look to Jesus for our hope, our salvation, and I hope you will too.
The Truth: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:2)
