JESUS CARRIED OUR SORROWS TO VICTORY
In Isaiah 53, God gave his prophet the first glimpse of the Messiah, some 700 years before he was ever born.
But it wasn’t the view that everyone anticipated seeing.
Isaiah dropped a bombshell. It seemed to come out of nowhere.
His vision was so astonishing that he doubted that anyone would believe what he had been shown.
The world had been waiting and holding its collective breath for 76 generations, and four thousand years, to see what Gods redemptive plan for mankind would look like, and there he stood.
Perhaps many hoped to see a warrior king more skilled than David, someone stronger than Samson, or a military genius greater than Joshua.
There would finally be an end to all the tyranny, injustice, evil, and cruelty, forever.
Can you recall a time when you thought God was going to do something one way, and then he did it a completely different way?
This was a time like that.
Maybe that is why the Lord says, His ways aren’t our ways.
Jesus looked nothing like the superhero some thought they would be getting. Instead, he looked more like the man Isaiah described centuries earlier.
Someone average, without distinction, but also heavy burdened. “A man of sorrows and well acquainted with grief.”
But why?
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