Isaiah 53 Part 1

With Easter being this week, I want to focus on passages that deal with the cross and its significance in our lives. Today as you read Isaiah 53 please note that this is an Old Testament prophecy of Christ written some 500 years before Christ ever was born. Today I want us to focus on verse 6. As I read this I reminded of how great a price Christ paid and how undeserving I am. We all have sinned (gone astray); we all do our own thing and deny Christ as Lord. Yet instead of putting the punishment on us that we deserve. God the father chose to place it upon His son. You and I deserve death and eternal separation from God because of our sin. You and I deserve to be the one that hung on that cross. But you and I could have never done it. Christ is the only one who never sinned, the only one who could pay the debt of sin. So God the father laid our sin on His son. Thanks be to God for His mercy and grace. Thanks be to God that He made a way through Jesus to have a relationship with Him. Thanks be to God that Jesus was willing to lay down His life for us. The least we can do is lay down our life for Him. How many times do I allow excuses to keep me from serving Him? Imagine if Jesus said I don’t feel like dying for them. Imagine if Jesus said I don’t have time, to many other things to do.

Father, thank you for the cross. Thank you for you son. Forgive me for so many times allowing excuses to keep me from serving you. Today give me the determination to serve you faithfully. Remind me of the price your son paid to set me free.