Is. 53:4-6
Just yesterday I had to discipline one of my boys...and I had to do something that I hate doing doing. I had to spank him. It absolutely kills me to have to spank any of my boys...I rarely have to spank at all... not that my boys are perfect, but usually they correct themselves or show that they have learned a life lesson when we sit down and talk it out. But this was not one of those moments. He had locked his brother in a closet and turned out the light... and then proceeded to say some hurtful things to his younger brother. Needless to say my little guy freaked out... and came downstairs to share his broken heart. So I did what I didn't want to do...I grabbed a belt and I spanked one of my sons.
It absolutely broke my heart to have to spank my son. I love him very much! But I know it was the right thing to do and it was needful for his maturity and for his process of learning right from wrong. I share that story because this morning ...by the providence of God I read Isaiah 53: 4-6 in my devotion time. Listen to these words and meditate on them...Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down....he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
As I read these verses this morning I am completely broken. These verses describe everything that shouldn't be! I mean it was my fault for the condition of my life, not Christ's. It was my choice not His. It was my sin, my rebellion, my pride, my lust, my selfishness that has fatally wounded my soul! And yet the bible describes everything Christ went through for me. Everything that shouldn't be! What an absolute insane love God has for me. I can only imagine what God was thinking and feeling as he watched his son take the beating and torture of the cross for the sins of mankind...for me and my sins. All the while the very ones whom he was trying to rescue, restore and heal... mocked him they cheered "Crucify Him..."... "Look everybody its the King of the Jews" ... "Hey Jesus if your really God...why don't you save your self." I mean God poured out His wrath and His judgment on his own son, and yet no one even stopped to take notice. How could God not just go nuts on everybody and wipe out mankind? If that was me having to beat my own son and see him tortured for something he didn't do ...I think I would lose my mind! AND YET ... the bible says ...God did all that he did for one reason... to rescue us, heal us, restore us and to show us the extent of His love!
Rom. 8:32 "Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? "
Oh God I pray today that I would live in view of your mercy and grace! God forgive me for allowing sin to stay in my life, forgive me for dismissing the cross as I daily choose to sin against you! Jesus that should have been me! EVERYTHING I WAS YOU BECAME SO THAT EVERYTHING YOU ARE I CAN BECOME!
Romans 7:24-25 "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
Not Ashamed...Bill
Just yesterday I had to discipline one of my boys...and I had to do something that I hate doing doing. I had to spank him. It absolutely kills me to have to spank any of my boys...I rarely have to spank at all... not that my boys are perfect, but usually they correct themselves or show that they have learned a life lesson when we sit down and talk it out. But this was not one of those moments. He had locked his brother in a closet and turned out the light... and then proceeded to say some hurtful things to his younger brother. Needless to say my little guy freaked out... and came downstairs to share his broken heart. So I did what I didn't want to do...I grabbed a belt and I spanked one of my sons.
It absolutely broke my heart to have to spank my son. I love him very much! But I know it was the right thing to do and it was needful for his maturity and for his process of learning right from wrong. I share that story because this morning ...by the providence of God I read Isaiah 53: 4-6 in my devotion time. Listen to these words and meditate on them...Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down....he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
As I read these verses this morning I am completely broken. These verses describe everything that shouldn't be! I mean it was my fault for the condition of my life, not Christ's. It was my choice not His. It was my sin, my rebellion, my pride, my lust, my selfishness that has fatally wounded my soul! And yet the bible describes everything Christ went through for me. Everything that shouldn't be! What an absolute insane love God has for me. I can only imagine what God was thinking and feeling as he watched his son take the beating and torture of the cross for the sins of mankind...for me and my sins. All the while the very ones whom he was trying to rescue, restore and heal... mocked him they cheered "Crucify Him..."... "Look everybody its the King of the Jews" ... "Hey Jesus if your really God...why don't you save your self." I mean God poured out His wrath and His judgment on his own son, and yet no one even stopped to take notice. How could God not just go nuts on everybody and wipe out mankind? If that was me having to beat my own son and see him tortured for something he didn't do ...I think I would lose my mind! AND YET ... the bible says ...God did all that he did for one reason... to rescue us, heal us, restore us and to show us the extent of His love!
Rom. 8:32 "Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? "
Oh God I pray today that I would live in view of your mercy and grace! God forgive me for allowing sin to stay in my life, forgive me for dismissing the cross as I daily choose to sin against you! Jesus that should have been me! EVERYTHING I WAS YOU BECAME SO THAT EVERYTHING YOU ARE I CAN BECOME!
Romans 7:24-25 "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
Not Ashamed...Bill
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