"Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one." ~Isaiah 44:8, NIV
In v7, God challenges the Israelites to find a god like Him. If there is one, they are to tell God about it. Then we come to the above verse, where God tells them to come boldly before Him.
He was right, anyways. There is no God like Him who reached down to us so that we might be saved instead of asking us to reach up to the unreachable. There is no God who loved His people so much that He was willing to sacrifice a part of Himself to become one of us, much more to die and break through the gates of hell.
Do not be afraid to come before this God who loves you so much, nor to obey Him. All history witnesses to Him. All creation witnesses to Him. Could such perfection in balance and form come from chance?
And even if it could, is there any god like Him? And since there isn't, can't we come boldly, with respect to our Father?
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