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. He will come to anyone except to whom God says to come, believe anyone, anything and everything except the Word of God. He will do so 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 (1 Cor 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 (Jn 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 (Jb 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 (Jn 14:6).