We all like sheep have gone astray because we want our own way

This passage speaks of the suffering and salvation of our Lord Jesus … the ‘good news’. Even though recorded about 700 years before Christ came it’s as though these words were written at the foot of the cross. Jesus suffering only increased with his age ‘he was despised and we held him in low esteem’. His opponents were constantly looking for a way to kill him and eventually they succeeded. Even though completely innocent, Jesus did not reply to any of the charges brought against him.

The horror of how he suffered helps us appreciate the why. Two reasons are given here. The first is that it was because of us … ‘he was pierced for our transgressions’. The second is that it was God’s will that he suffer. It was the Lord who laid the iniquity of us all upon him. If we cannot accept the horror of the solution then we cannot accept the ‘horror’ of God’s love.

It is hard to see how any good could come to the suffering servant but we find that he will be raised up and highly exalted. It is not only the Father himself who is pleased but the Servant also and, as believers, we share in the ‘spoils’ of his victory.

 

 

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