Isaiah 45:18-23
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

People may seek for an alternative, but there is no other. People may say they cannot know if God exists, but He declares Himself to us so that we might know and believe. People may gather their own ideas about God, but He speaks the truth of who He really is. He is God who created all things. He is the only God. He is the source of salvation, the Savior. He is just and right. He is the supreme God of all before whom everyone will bow. So then it is not that people cannot know, but it is that they do not want to believe.

Look at Israel, God’s chosen people, the ones to whom and through whom God chose to reveal Himself, and the years of idolatry that they had in their history. To see and experience and know all of the things that they did and then to still reject God is astounding—but not really surprising when we consider human nature, the nature of sinful man. And then once again when Jesus walked the earth, Israel collectively saw up close and personal the God Isaiah describes and still they rejected Him as a nation. Again, astounding but not surprising.

Today we have the full Word of God, His witness and testimony of Himself, His cry to a sinful world, and still many reject it and refuse to believe or accept God. It’s almost ingrained in that sinful part of man to reject a righteous and holy God. But it is our desperate neediness that draws us to Him when we recognize we need a Savior and that He will gladly save us. We need not look elsewhere. God is God. God is real. He is the only true God, and He is who we need.