- But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 – This passage walks through all that the future Messiah would go through on behalf of the people He loves. For us, we read this passage with a much different understanding of it because we are on the other side of all this. We know the events and we know it was Jesus who did all this for us. Let’s dwell on all that today. Not because it’s a special day like Good Friday, or Easter, or some fancy church revival. It’s just normal day today where typically tacos are all that people are thinking of (it’s Cinco de Mayo if you didn’t know…) It though doesn’t have to be a special church holiday for us to remember what Jesus did for us for. He died for us so we could have life with Him every single day. Be sure to include time in your plans today to thank God for what He did for us. This is a pretty amazing blessing we have getting to have our sins washed away and granted life with God instead. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1254
- But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 – The entirety of this chapter is speaking of Jesus and the suffering that He would face on our behalf. While this verse is likely a more familiar passage to some, possibly one of the most familiar verses to us in all of Isaiah, let us remember what this familiar verse actually says. Jesus was pieced and crushed for our sin. The judgement of our sin came on Him and that is what brought us peace with God. And it was His wounds that brought us healing. It wasn’t our efforts of making it to church every Sunday that healed our sin. It wasn’t the promises we made to God nor the labels we carry in this world that healed us from the wounds of sin. It was the wounds of Jesus alone that brought us healing. Let us today find ourselves dwelling on and praising God for a Savior who was willing to be wounded on our behalf. Jesus saw us in our sin, and instead of rejecting us decided to be counted among us and took the weight on our sin upon His own shoulders so we could walk away free and healed. Praise Jesus, praise the Father, and Praise the Holy Spirit. We have healing from our sin because of our Lord. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2720
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