“…LOOK UNTO ME…”
“Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I
am God, and there is none else.” Isaiah
45:22
There is but ONE to whom we must look for salvation. There is but ONE
to whom we must look for forgiveness of sin. There is but ONE to whom
we must come for eternal life. This ONE is none other than the GOD-MAN…the
Lord Jesus Christ…A Just God and a Saviour; there is none else!”
Man in his fallen, dead, ignorant condition will do anything except
what God says to do, come to anyone except to WHOM God says to come,
believe anyone, anything and everything except the Word of God, unless
and until God in grace and mercy effectually calls, regenerates and
reveals the Lord Jesus Christ to the heart by His Spirit through the
preaching of the gospel - “For after that in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching
to save them that believe” 1Co 1:21.
When God effectually calls elect sinners to Himself, they come! -
“All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh
to Me I will in no wise cast out” John
6:37. They come gladly, joyfully, willingly, by faith that He
has given. - “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift of God” Eph
2:8. They come looking unto Him only. When one truly sees Christ
by faith as He is revealed in the gospel he is overwhelmed and stands
in awe of His glorious Person. The sinner who truly sees Christ as His
salvation is nauseated with his own supposed righteousness which he
trusted in before. - “I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the
ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent
in dust and ashes” Job 42:5-6.
We look unto Christ alone Who is all our salvation and desire. There
is no salvation in any other - “Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby
we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 Away
with our “good works”, away with our credentials, away with our traditions,
away with our false gods. It is Him alone that shines as a beacon before
us to light the way to glory. He is THE WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE.
And NO MAN can come to the Father but by HIM! - “Jesus saith unto
him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,
but by Me.” John 14:6.
Tommy