Look Unto Me

Isaiah (Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Standard Yəšaʿyáhu Tiberian Yəšaʿăyāhû ; Greek: Ἠσαΐας, Ēsaiās ; Arabic: اشعیاء‎, Ash-ee-yaa ; "Salvation of/is YHWH") is the main figure in the Biblical Book of Isaiah, and is traditionally considered to be its author.

Isaiah was an 8th-century BC Judean prophet who declared that all the world belonged to God and that God will destroy it. "The land will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word." (Isaiah 24:3). Isaiah therefore warns the people of the world to turn to God.

The verse from Isaiah that has been on my mind this week is in Isaiah 45, verse 22. "Look unto me and be saved all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is no other."

"Look unto me"..... means to to turn to, to face or to recognize who God is.

"and be saved" ......means to be set free.

"all the ends of the earth".... refers to the earth at large, all common things to creation, not just the Hebrew people.

"for I am God".....Isaiah is saying that God is our strength, and we must realize that God is the source of all things.

"and there is no other." Isaiah is stating that there is nothing else but God. There is nothing outside the Life of God.

As we live in the Life of God as created we either begin to reflect the true perfect nature of our creator or we begin to construct an unnatural view of self and a life that is nothing more than an elusion much like a shadow that appears to be real but in truth has no substance. As our existence becomes more identified with the elusion of self, our lives like the land mentioned by Isaiah will be "completely laid waste and totally plundered."

As the Jewish mind was evolving toward understanding the true nature of God, Isaiah in his time opened a small window that led to greater understanding. There is One Life that exist and that is the Life of God and out this Life there is One Mind that creates and sustains everything.

It seems so simple, "Look unto me" and nowhere else and you will be set free. You are set free to realize that your life exist only in the Life of God, no where else. In the Mind and Life of God, the concept of fear, of death, lack or limitation has no reality, therefore we should not recognize any legitimacy in these things in our own thought and experiences.