Isaiah 45:22
And there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.
“Look to Me, and be saved,
All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
Israel was God’s first born among His creation. There will be 144,00 in the end who will not bend to the lesser gods of unbelief. In their witness to the world all who believe in the King of the Jews, Jesus the Son of God, will be saved.
Isaiah 43:10-13
10“You are My witnesses,” says the Lord,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
Nor shall there be after Me.
11 I, even I, am the Lord,
And besides Me there is no savior.
12 I have declared and saved,
I have proclaimed,
And there was no foreign god among you;
Therefore you are My witnesses,”
Says the Lord, “that I am God.
13 Indeed before the day was, I am He;
And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;
I work, and who will reverse it?”
God will never deny those who place their life in His hands in the salvation that He provides in Christ Jesus. Carla
You is strongly contrasted by “I” at the beginning of verse 11. The people of Israel had witnessed the great works of God in their midst (Exodus 4). These verses form a magnificent celebration of the sovereignty of God (14:24, 26, 27; Numbers 23:19).
The Hebrew text contains merely the word foreign; the word god is implied. The point is that only the living God was at work in the Israelites’ midst. This same Hebrew term for savior is used in verse 3. The Lord was always at work—saving, protecting, guiding, and disciplining His people.
The concluding line of the song of praise—there is no one … My hand—is quoted from Deuteronomy 32:39. The NKJV Study Bible
In the trial scene, God calls on Israel to witness on His behalf that it was He and no other god that saved them (verse 12). My servant whom I have chosen refers to corporate Israel, as in 41:8 and 42:19.
No other deity existed before Yahweh. Other divine beings are called Yahweh’s “sons” (Job 38:7–8; Psalm 89:5–8), suggesting He created them.
Israel was not to worship these other gods (Deuteronomy 4:19–20; 17:3; 32:17). Since the Old Testament describes other gods as stars or the host of heaven, passages that describe the creation of the heavenly host likely seek to credit Yahweh with superiority over them (since He created them).
“There is no savior besides me” this assertion is repeated in Isaiah 45:21 again in the context of a strong polemic against idolatry. For Israelites, the gods of the nations were inferior to Yahweh and undeserving of worship (Deuteronomy 32:8–9, 17). Faithlife Study Bible
Isaiah 44:8
Do not fear, nor be afraid;
Have I not told you from that time, and declared it?
You are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
Indeed there is no other Rock;
I know not one.’ ”
Isaiah 41:4
Who has performed and done it,
Calling the generations from the beginning?
‘I, the LORD, am the first;
And with the last I am He.’ ”
Job 9:12
If He takes away, who can hinder Him?
Who can say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
Here’s the deal: Gratitude does not take away any of the difficult decisions or conundrums of our week. But it sure keeps us from looking in the rear-view mirror or around the next corner. Yes, one step at a time.
Gratitude allows us to live this life, and not the one we always figured that we’d trade this one in for.
Gratitude allows us to invest in what we can see, hear, taste, touch and smell in the moment. The sacrament of the present moment.
Gratitude allows us to partake in the joys of the everyday, to see the sacred in the very, very ordinary.
And gratitude helps us see that the sufficiency is not self-sufficiency, but that gratitude sees the connection, Ram Dass’ affirmation that we do indeed walk one another home. “Sabbath Moments”
Ecclesiastes 9:18 (ESV) "Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good."
Wisdom helps us rise above the brutal consequences of life in a broken world, first by recognizing that the cause of chaos is humanity's own doing: "One sinner destroys much good" (Ecclesiastes 9:18). This verse refers to how the world's first sinners, Adam and Eve, destroyed God's good creation (Romans 5:12). But God still had a plan for the righteous One, Jesus, to become wisdom incarnate and restore what was lost (1 Corinthians 1:24).
When we don't understand why life is unfair or why evil prevails, we don't have to resign ourselves to "time and chance" like the Teacher in Ecclesiastes 9:11. Today, we can remember that Jesus faced suffering and defeated evil to redeem us.
We can trust God through the hard and the good, injustices and blessings, because He is sovereign over every detail. As we follow Christ, He weaves our every moment into His grand design.
2 Corinthians 10:4 says the weapons of God are capable of defeating strongholds. The term "strongholds" in this verse (achyroma in Greek) evokes a fortress or prison within our own mind, which traps us in a way of thinking that is counter to God's wisdom and ways.When we feel defeated by life's challenges or the battle in our own minds, we can remember that as Christ followers, we have "the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" to help us overcome (Ephesians 6:17). And the ultimate battle has already been won (1 Corinthians 15:57). First5
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