Isaiah 45

In Isaiah 45:21-22, we read, “There is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; . . . Turn to me and be saved, . . . for I am God, and there is no other.” God is righteous (just) and merciful (He saves). Through Jesus’ death, justice and mercy meet. He declared, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). Paul affirmed, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:23-24). We’re reconciled to God only through faith in Christ’s payment for our sins on the cross. There’s nothing we can do to earn salvation: “He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy” (Titus 3:5).

Alyson Kieda