In Isaiah 46 God is making a comparison between Himself and the idols of the people around His chosen people, which had become idols that His chosen people adopted as their own gods. God points out that those idols must be carried around by people, but when it comes to God He is the one who does the carrying. He carries His people, not the other way around. He has always been the one carrying them, and He will continue to carry them when they are old and unable to do much themselves. God made them, so He’s going to carry them and look after them. God then asks who His people could compare Him to. He points out that idols are made by the people who worship them, and remarks again that they must be carried around. God is not the one who is made or carried; He is the one who makes and carries. Idols can’t hear you or move to help you; God can!
God then points out that there is literally no one like Him, telling His people to look back on the past and remember. Only God can announce and declare the end from the beginning. Only He can tell you what the future holds and bring those things to pass. Only He can do whatever He wants. Only He can call whoever He wants to accomplish all He plans, and He certainly will do it! God then tells His stubborn people who are far from righteousness to listen to Him and that He is bringing His righteousness and salvation near to them.
All this causes me to think about what God still does for us today. He still does whatever He wants, calls whoever He wants, and makes His righteous plans come to pass, and it doesn’t matter how far you are from righteousness, God can bring it near, and God can carry you near.