Oh, How Jesus Loves Us!

If you are having a bad day and feel like everything is going wrong. Stop and read this Bible Passage. Isaiah 53 prophecies the coming of Jesus. 

Jesus was the Son of God, but he looked ordinary, when He was in fact extraordinary.

Jesus loved us, while we despised and rejected Him. 

Jesus was despised, and we didn’t care. 

Jesus carried our weaknesses and sin, and we thought God was punishing Him. 

Jesus went through all of this for us. 

Jesus was beaten, so we could be whole. 

He was whipped, so we could be healed.

We strayed from God, and Jesus carried our sins. 

We watched in silence, as Jesus was treated harshly and led to slaughter,

We rebelled, and He was struck down.

We sinned, and Jesus died for our sins like a criminal. 

It was God’s plan, that Jesus suffer, so we can prosper.

Jesus died on the cross, so we can have eternal life. 

Jesus lost His life, so we can have ours.

Jesus loves us!

Who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?

My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.

He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.

Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!

But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.

He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.

Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.

He had done no wrong
and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal;
he was put in a rich man’s grave.

But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him
and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
he will have many descendants.
He will enjoy a long life,
and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.

When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,
he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
for he will bear all their sins.

I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier,
because he exposed himself to death.
He was counted among the rebels.
He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

—Isaiah 53 (NLT)

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