Isaiah 53, Our Lord’s story on earth

•  He grew up like a tender shoot

•  Like a root out of parched ground

•  He was not stately of form

•  He has no majesty that we should pay attention

•  He has not appearance that would attract people

•  He was despised

•  He was forsaken of men

•  He was a man of sorrows

•  He was acquainted with grief

•  He was the type people hide from

•  He was despised

•  We did not esteem him.

•  He bore our griefs

•  He carried our sorrows

•  Even still we viewed him as stricken, smitten of God and afflicted

•  He was pierced through for OUR/MY transgressions

•  He was crushed for our/my iniquities

•  He was chastened for our well-being

•  We are healed by his scourging

•  Because we all wandered off like so many sheep, our iniquity fell to him.

•  He was oppressed

•  He was afflicted

•  He did not open his mouth

•  Like a sheep before its shearer is dumb, he did not open his mouth

•  He was taken away by oppression and judgment for the sins of our people who deserved it.

•  His grave was with wicked men

•  He was with a rich man in his death

•  He had done no violence

•  There was no deceit in his mouth

•  The LORD was pleased to crush him

•  He made himself a guilt offering

•  By the anguish of his soul he will justify many

•  He bore their sins

•  Because he poured out himself to death he was counted with the sinners, yet he carried the sin of many and ‘interceded for the transgressors.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you LORD. Your lovingkindness is everlasting.

Heather Jean Wilson Torosyan