Our scripture for the Daily Devotional today is taken from Isaiah 5:1-7. Jesus was whipped and beaten within a breath of life. This skin had been ripped away and pierced with thorns while satan celebrated.
“Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.”
The silent sacrificial lamb!
Despite all the miracles and great works that Jesus had done for thousands of people leading up to His crucifixion, no one came to His rescue. In the selfishness of sin, Jesus was rejected and condemned to suffering even though He didn’t deserve it.
All of our sicknesses, wounds, and afflictions were heaped upon Jesus with every whip or hit. Standing in silence He took them all staring at all of those inflicting Him through tears of love and compassion.
When we follow the word of God, we see how Jesus willingly gave Himself as the lamb to be slain. Knowing what lay ahead of Him He sought His Father, but out of love He took all the punishment for us.
Let’s Pray
Dear Father,
Thank you Father that You allowed Jesus to take our sins, illness, and worries with Him to the cross. As I consider what it cost Him and You, I am so grateful and full of worship.
In Jesus’ Name,
Amen