Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"A just God and a Saviour"
Text: Isaiah 45:21
Isaiah focused attention on those who had gone into Babylonian captivity. They would be released by King Cyrus who ruled the Medo-Persian empire. Would the returnees to Israel find faith in the LORD?
“Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You who have escaped from the nations.
They have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god that cannot save.
Tell and bring forth your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the LORD?
And there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Saviour;
There is none besides Me.”
Isaiah 45:20-21
1. A direct word to the Returnees.
a) They were described as “escaped from the nations”.
b) The LORD had promised that they would return to their homeland.
c) Many of them had forsaken the LORD.
i) They have no spiritual knowledge.
ii) They carried their idols with them.
iii) They prayed to their idol-gods who could not save them.
2. Another direct word to the idol-worshipping returnee.
a) Some continued to worship their idols.
b) The LORD sought to reason with them.
c) Which of their idols offered true prophecy?
i) Which idol promised that Israel would return home?
ii) Which idol foretold things at all?
iii) No idol had ever given such words of prophetic hope.
3. The LORD God of Israel.
a) He had proven Himself in so many ways.
b) He had shown Israel what He had done.
i) There were no other gods that may compare with the LORD.
ii) The LORD was a just God.
iii) He was also their Saviour.
iv) There was none like Him.