“I, even, I am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior” (Is. 43:11)
As you get up early to head to work and take your children to school, here is a question to ponder “Do you pour your breakfast cereal into the bowl and then pour milk over it? Or do you pour the milk into the bowl and then add the cereal? Similar questions to ponder are: When you mow the lawn, do you bag the clippings, or do you leave them to the wind? Do you eat Chinese food with a fork or do you try to use the chopsticks? Do you have your family devotions in the morning, at dinnertime, or before going to bed? With all these things, there is more than one way to do it. Despite the variations, in the end, the cereal gets milk, the lawn is cut, the food is eaten, and the devotions are read. There is more than one way to do the job.
However, that is not the case when it comes to being saved from our sins. Though many try to carry this world view over to the area of salvation. There is only one way to have eternal life and that is through faith in the Lord, the world’s only Savior. The true God says, “I, even, I, am the LORD, and part form me there is no savior.”
Some people take pride in being open minded and progressive about the matter of salvation. They think there may be many routes to eternal life with God. But the Lord calls that kind of open mindedness, idolatry.
The Triune God alone proves the way to salvation. No other god can do what our God does. He reveals himself by His Word and by his works. He proclaimed through his prophets what he was going to do to save us, and then he proceeded to fulfill his promise with perfection. He saved us by giving his Son to fulfill all things for us and to die for us.
There is no other way. The Lord alone is God. Faith in Jesus—the way, the truth and the life—is the one and only way to eternal life with the Father.
