Isaiah
53:3 ESV
Soak in the
words Isaiah uses to describe our savior; despised, rejected, a man
of sorrows, acquainted with grief.
Do you see
Jesus hanging on the cross as you read these words? The one, that
came to show the world love and compassion is hanging on the tree.
His life blood flowing away for a world that has no use for Him. He
is hanging in shame and sorrow. His mother looks on in horror as He
dies before her eyes. God Himself, cannot even look upon Jesus, He
bears the sins of the world. Jesus cries out "My God, my
God, why have you forsaken me?" Mark
15:34 ESV Jesus is being executed in the most
horrible way imaginable. The death he is dying is reserved for the
worst offenders. Yet He is the only one, that was ever innocent of
any sin.
When the verse
says “he was
despised, and we
esteemed him not” it means we ignored Him and had no respect for
Him and what He came to do. His own people had rejected Him as their
King.
Isaiah
prophecies the reaction the world would have to their own Lord and
Savior.
Today we all
have to do decide what we will do with Jesus. Will we accept Him or
ignore Him? Will we honor Him or disrespect Him? When the Jews were
asked what to do with Jesus they said, "Crucify, crucify him!"
Luke 23:21 ESV
If we ignore
His call today, we are guilty of His death on the cross. We are just
as guilty as those Peter preached to on the day of Pentecost. “Let
all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made
him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you
crucified."
Acts 2:36 ESV Our sins put Him on the cross, His
blood can remove our sins. What shall we do?
As “Peter
said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Acts
2:38 ESV To receive the forgiveness for our sins
we must obey the command that Peter gave that day. If not, we stand
convicted of Jesus death on the cross.
© 2012 Leo J.
Woodman
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