Today's encouragement comes from Isaiah 45:5a, where we read these words:
"I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me. . . . "The Lord (YHWH) says that He *alone* is God, and that no other gods exist. Therefore, the pertinent question for us, is, “Do we believe this?” Nonethe-less, the truth of the Biblical God’s complete *exclusivity* stands, whether anyone believes it, or not. . . .
Why is it supremely-important that we savingly believe in the One True God (through Jesus Christ, The God-Man, alone); and not simply hold to a sterile monotheism? Because it is not sufficient, just to “believe in God.” Instead, we must believe in the Only God that *actually* exists. He is made known to us in and through Jesus Christ.
[Puritan quote of the day: "It is by faith that we have a title to eternal life be-cause it is by faith that we have the Son of God by whom life is.” —Jonathan Edwards, in, "Justification by Faith Alone"]
