Isaiah 45:20-25

²⁰ Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver. ²¹ Inform me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, Yahveh? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me. ²² Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s isolated regions! Because I am God, and I have no peer. ²³ I solemnly make this oath– what I say is true and reliable: every knee will definitely bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm; ²⁴ they will say about me, “Yes, Yahveh is a powerful deliverer.”‘” All who are angry at him now will cower before him then. ²⁵ All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated Yahveh and boast in him.

ignoring the evidence

Isaiah expresses God’s anger and frustration at a generation who refuses to accept the truth that he alone is God, and that he alone can deliver. Is it not logical to conclude that God would be just as angry and frustrated with this generation, who refuses to accept the same truth? Today, the theological backdrop is normally one of secular atheism. But the end result is the same: God’s existence and sovereignty is ignored. No doubt many who ignore God today excuse themselves by imagining that if God wanted to make himself known to them, he should do so. But God has made himself known, by creation, by the 66 books of the Bible, and by the Christ-event. The God who is peerless challenges all of us to present the evidence. He has more evidence than we can begin to answer.

LORD, forgive us for ignoring all of your evidence. Give us courage to express your frustration with this world content on ignorance.