Friday, April 14, 2017

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering; Isaiah 53:1-6

Isaiah 53;1-6
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 
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 face he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 
Surely he took up our pain and bore our sufferingyet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 
But he was pierced for our transgressionshe 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.
How different this is from the people's understanding of the future king: no acclaim, only rejection - a figure despised and ignored.
The New Testament echoes Isaiah, seeing in Jesus the ultimate fulfillment of these words. He it was who willingly gave his life that all might be forgiven, taking ' the place of many sinners' to reconcile God and his people, 'undoing' the effects of that original downfall.
Why?
When Isiah was sad for the King had passed away, the Lord let him see the future king Jesus Christ will come as a servant and was rejected by his people. 
Jesus Christ is punished and pierced for out transgressions, and by his wounds we are healed, reconcile God and his people.
How?
Confess my sins and turn to the Jesus Christ, for his great mercy and grace I like to turn focus of my life to Jesus Christ.



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