Focus
Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you.
Read
4 Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.
9 They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain.
When you make his life an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
11 Out of his anguish he shall see light;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Reflect
The tapestry of the Bible is a beautiful thing. Within 66 books are threads of different colors and themes, woven together to create something amazing. From Genesis to Revelations, individual threads join to create one story that is tightly bound together.
An example of this is seen in today’s verses. Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, we already see God’s plan for the coming Son. This prophecy in Isaiah brings painful imagery to the reader, as we note the torment Jesus will face, on behalf of our sins.
But, to see God’s plan through the book of Isaiah, already in motion as we prepare for Jesus’ death and resurrection in The Gospels, is a testament to His love for us. We can trust a God that plans like this. We can trust a God that shares His plan and then keeps His Word in fulfilling it. We can trust a God that creates a book through the weaving of event after event, coming together for the good of all mankind.
Pray
Lord, thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. I am grateful, humbled, and praise your name for it. Amen.
Go with God!
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