“Turn to me and be saved,
    all you ends of the earth;
    for I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I have sworn,
    my mouth has uttered in all integrity
    a word that will not be revoked:
Before me every knee will bow;
    by me every tongue will swear.
24 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
    are deliverance and strength.’”
All who have raged against him
    will come to him and be put to shame.
25 But all the descendants of Israel
    will find deliverance in the Lord
    and will make their boast in him.

Isaiah’s vision embraces the world God loves. It is profoundly missionary.

Many years ago, when preaching his way through this part of the prophecy, David Pawson made the point that if there is only one God, then everyone must be told about Him.

Here, God Himself calls out, through the prophet (preacher!) to the world He loves, appealing to all its people to ”Turn to” Him for salvation. He is the only one who can save. This turns my mind to Paul’s words in 2 Cor.5:20:

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 

The apostle Paul, of course, picks up the words of verse 23 in his great Christological passage in Phil.2:1-11, and applies them to Jesus. That he does so says something important about his belief in the divinity of Christ.

This is the choice we face: we can willingly kneel before God now – turn to Him and be saved – or one day have to kneel before Him as Judge and Lord of all (24b). We will all, in the final analysis, have to admit that He is the only God there is.