Yesterday we attended an awesome Good Friday service. A portion of scripture came from Isaiah 53. I have always loved this as it says "by his wounds we are healed." So true.
When I look back at who I was and where I came from, I realize what he"healed" me from and many of these things were not physical ailments. I needed healing from attitude, bad decisions, rebellion, disobedience and they don't make meds for any of those...only by the blood of Jesus.
This morning however, God gave me a different perspective as Isaiah 53 was my devotional passage. So many times when we are in a valley, the tendency is to ask "Why God? Why are you doing this to me?" Why would a God that loves his people do this to them?
I read the scripture and this verse caught my eye:
"Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows yet we considered him stricken by God."
The people considered him stricken by God yet this was not about punishment. This was about love! His love for you! God was seeing him through, God was at his side, God was allowing His plan to be fulfilled through his son Jesus so that you and I could have a chance at eternal life.
In our valley, it is easy to ask "why" God? As much as some would like to believe that "a mean God" was allowing this, it was actually a loving God that made the sacrifice of His only son in order to save mankind. Me, you, and a chance at eternal life....our answer to "Why God."
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:4-6
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