January 27, 2019: Day 57 – Isaiah 53

This chapter is the epitome of the suffering servant.  As you read through this chapter you need to think of our Savior Jesus as the one that it is describing.  As you read through it you can almost  check the boxes that describe who he was when he walked upon the earth.  “He was despised and rejected by others.”  “He has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases.”  “He was wounded for our transgressions…and by his bruises we are healed.”  “The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”  “He was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he did not open his mouth.”  “Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter…so he did not open his mouth.” “They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich.”  “When you make his life an offering for sin.”  “The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.”  “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.”

Our God is amazing, simply amazing.