Sunday, November 8, 2015

Isaiah 53

Today we weren't able to attend worship due to a medical need our younger son has going on for the next few days. But, this doesn't mean I am not still thinking about my Savior, worshiping God, and in His word. Today Isaiah 53 was on my heart and I wanted to share it with you.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Maybe this came to me because of a very lengthy conversation I had yesterday with a wonderful man who was Jewish. We spoke about the Messiah, who I thought Jesus was, who He thought he was, and what will happen at the second coming with who he might think Jesus is then (he put it as might, I know it will be definite). He is on my heart today. I so wish he would come to the full saving knowledge of Christ. Maybe my words or actions might have spoken a bit of truth into his heart. I hope I planted a tiny seed that might grow and blossom as others tend to it.  

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