They Didn't Take His Life.....
He gave it.
Seven hundred years before he was born, Isaiah spoke a stunningly accurate prophesy about Jesus.
Here's my 2023 response to parts of Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah 53: 2-6 -
Jesus was not a good-looking man. The pictures we have of him where he looks like a movie star are inaccurate.
People despised him but he was used to pain and sorrow - that was his life. A lot of people ignored him and avoided him when possible.
Yet he took on more pain - the pain that was meant for you and me. He paid the price for my rebellion and lack of compassion. He paid the price for your anger and self-centeredness. He paid the price for all sins for all time of all the world.
Seven hundred years before he was born, Isaiah spoke a stunningly accurate prophesy about Jesus.
Isaiah 53 - He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all
Here's my 2023 response to parts of Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah 53: 2-6 -
Jesus was not a good-looking man. The pictures we have of him where he looks like a movie star are inaccurate.
People despised him but he was used to pain and sorrow - that was his life. A lot of people ignored him and avoided him when possible.
Yet he took on more pain - the pain that was meant for you and me. He paid the price for my rebellion and lack of compassion. He paid the price for your anger and self-centeredness. He paid the price for all sins for all time of all the world.
Some people were confused when they saw all the problems Jesus had - they thought God was punishing him. Their eyes just weren't open to the truth.
The truth is that Jesus loves us so much that he took all of the punishment that we deserved...
so he could be our Savior... so we could have peace..... so we could be healed.
The truth is that Jesus loves us so much that he took all of the punishment that we deserved...
so he could be our Savior... so we could have peace..... so we could be healed.
You and I have sinned. And we keep sinning.
Jesus paid the price for all of our sins for all time.... so he could offer us salvation.
For free ... For eternity.
- Have I said anything out of frustration or lack of patience today? Not yet - but it's early.
- Have you thought of anything unkind or unforgiving today? God also knows our thoughts - that's a tough one.
Jesus paid the price for all of our sins for all time.... so he could offer us salvation.
For free ... For eternity.
Do you realize He did this all for you?
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