Happy Holy Week Tuesday
March 30
Today's Easter letter is "A". I wanted "arise," but that really isn't quite where we are in the remembrance of Holy Week. On Bible Gateway today is Isaiah 53:3-4 in the NIV version and the "A" word that jumped out at me was "afflicted."
A-Afflict: to distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering or anguish.
While I really prefer to look at the pretty side of things...like Jesus' victory when he arises, to know Christ is to comprehend his suffering which was done for us.
Look closely at The Message version of this passage and ask God to show you something you have never seen before about Christ. Get to know Him more and more, take a second look!
Isaiah 53:2-6(The Message)
The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed. We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost. We've all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong, on him, on him.
Today's Easter letter is "A". I wanted "arise," but that really isn't quite where we are in the remembrance of Holy Week. On Bible Gateway today is Isaiah 53:3-4 in the NIV version and the "A" word that jumped out at me was "afflicted."
A-Afflict: to distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering or anguish.
While I really prefer to look at the pretty side of things...like Jesus' victory when he arises, to know Christ is to comprehend his suffering which was done for us.
Look closely at The Message version of this passage and ask God to show you something you have never seen before about Christ. Get to know Him more and more, take a second look!
Isaiah 53:2-6(The Message)
The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed. We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost. We've all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong, on him, on him.
