I believe we can learn a lot from different religions. Hopes for the divine emerge from the earliest recordings of humankind. But while various faith traditions reveal man’s search for the holy, only one truth emerges from the mists. As God revealed to Isaiah:

I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you…from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?

The religious impulses seen throughout history reveal a never-ending search for more than ourselves. We discover needs unable to be met by anyone in our lives. Political leaders, vast wealth and endless pleasures all run dry. Restless hearts only calm in the presence of the Lord.

God tells us, I, even I, am the Lord. In apprehensive days turn to him, for there is no other Savior.

Isaiah 43 in Through the Bible in 2024

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