Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? - Is. 53:1 NIV
Who would believe this message anyway. That salvation would come from some wimpy guy who said "Love your enemies, turn the other cheek, pray for those that despite you." and a myriad other radical things. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. - Is 53:2-3 NIV
He was betrayed and abandoned by his closest friends. Those who welcomed him joyously a week earlier became his accusers. And even as he carried our infirmities and sorrows to the depths of hell, everyone thought that God had abandoned him. As we go on our merry way, living our lives as if there were little consequence, he paid the price. God laid all of our sins on his back, to be carried to the grave and forgotten forever.
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