Through Him The Will Of The LORD Shall Prosper
Who
has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been
revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of
dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in
his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by
others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom
others hide their faces he was despised, and we held
him of no account.
Surely
he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him
stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our
transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that
made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the LORD has laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb
that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is
silent, so he did not open his mouth. By a perversion of justice he was taken
away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off
from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had
done no violence, and there was no deceit in his
mouth.
Yet
it was the will of the LORD to crush him with pain. When you make his life an
offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the LORD shall prosper. Out of his anguish he shall see
light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my
servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore
I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with
the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the
transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.
Isaiah 53:1-12
Have
you ever thought about your own sin? The sin that Jesus took the hit for, is your sin and my sin. Jesus was wounded, bruised, and
killed for us. We are the sheep who have gone astray. Jesus is our Shepherd. In
one sense, Good Friday was the darkest day in human history. But because of the
sacrifice Jesus made for us, the cross was actually the greatest victory of all
the ages! Christ was delivered for our sins that we might be delivered from our
sins.
Our Daily Bread –