God’s words to the prophet Isaiah would not be considered correct in our culture today. God told the prophet, “Turn to me and be saved,” and his message was truth for “all the ends of the earth.” God said, “I am God, and there is no other.”
The apostle Paul wrote a similar message to Timothy, saying that God “desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4).
We aren’t wrong to share the knowledge of Christ as “the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). The way Jesus spoke those words about himself does not allow any other possibility. Jesus is the only way, the only truth, and the only way for someone to have eternal life.
Many in our world consider that message unkind. Sharing God’s truth with a wise and compassionate delivery has become increasingly important. The gospel message can seem unkind so the messenger needs to be above reproach.
We don’t share the truth to argue that we are right and another person is wrong. We share the truth because God is always right and the rest of us are wrong whenever we think or act apart from his truth.
God has an “elect,” those who have been chosen as his children. But the fact we have been elected, or adopted into God’s family, doesn’t change the fact that he still wants others to know him as well.
It is difficult to rejoice over those in our family who walk with God without grieving for those who don’t. God’s will is that “all people be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.”
Anyone can turn to the Lord and be saved. There is only one God, and there is no other. God has never “rewritten” his first commandment, and the world has never ceased trying to make personal edits to God’s perfect truth. Every temptation is similar to the first. Satan began his temptation with Eve saying, “Did God really say . . . ?” When we doubt God’s word, we open a door to Satan’s suggestions.
Wisdom is joyfully sharing Christ with others. Satan will try to steal our joy and our testimony unless we firmly believe what Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). We aren’t “imposing our faith” on anyone by sharing the gospel. There is only one way for people to live eternally in heaven, and people deserve to know that truth.
