November 17
I am the LORD, and there is none else,
there is no God beside me …….
Isaiah 45:5
The nation of
Israel had not kept her part in the covenant with the Lord God and had
accommodated idols and the gods of the surrounding nations. For many centuries
the Lord God had been proving to the people of Israel that the gods of the surrounding
nations were as helpless as those who made the gods and that what some nations
worshipped as gods were actually the things that he the Lord God had created.
It was through
the prophet Isaiah that the Lord God declared his credentials that he was God
because as the Lord God he is able to tell what will happen in the future and
he has the capability to tell what happened in the past. The Lord God looked
two hundred years into the future and named the man that he would raise up to
fulfill his purposes concerning Israel. The Lord God declared that it was he
who formed the light and created the darkness also it is he who controls peace
and times of evil.
In a time when
there were many gods clamoring for the devotion of the people of Israel the
Lord God declared to the people of Israel that he was God and there is no God
beside him. When what he has spoken happens then all the nations would know
that there is no god to be compared to the Lord God and there is no other being
who hold the title of being God.
There does not
exist another omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, immutable being in existence
beside the Lord God.
Something to think
about: The prophecies of the scriptures still remain the litmus test of the
reality of the Lord God’s existence.
(This reading is taken from my book "Crumbs under the table")
Available in print and Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Prince-W.-Bradford/e/B00GM5OKR6
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