Isaiah 53-56
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Isaiah 53 – the picture of Jesus, the
suffering servant, that God gave to Isaiah for us. I read this chapter several times today … over and over …
just taking in the words of His sacrifice for us, His willing and silent
suffering to take away our sins and punishment.
I encourage you to do the same. Read it in a couple different translations. Let the words of His grace and love
wash over you and humble you.
He died for our transgressions. His wounds heal us. Our iniquities are put on His
shoulders. Through His death, we
have life.
Isaiah
53:1-10 The Message:
“Who believes what we’ve heard and
seen?
Who would have thought God’s
saving power would look like this?
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.
He was beaten, he was tortured,
But he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
And like a sheep being
sheared,
He took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off –
And did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own
welfare,
Beaten bloody for the sins of
my people.
They buried him with the wicked,
Threw him in a grave with a
rich man,
Even though he’d never hurt a soul
Or said one word that wasn’t
true.
To crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an
offering for sin
So that he’d see life come
from it – life, life, and more life.”
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