In my latest blogs I have been writing about being broken. The ultimate example of suffering and being broken is recorded in Isaiah 53, the twenty fourth book in the Old Testament. Read chapter 53. I am going to quote verses 3-5 from the King James Bible:
3 “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief and we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
4 Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.”
Christ, the Messiah, was BROKEN for my sins; He was bruised for our iniquities.
In the New Testament book of 2 Corinthians, verse 5:21, we are told that God made Jesus, the Christ who had no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. In God’s plan for my redemption, which is seen throughout the Bible, God’s Grace is sufficient in the life of a believer. I am not righteous. I could never do enough good or be good enough to deserve God’s mercy and forgiveness. Only God’s grace, His unmerited favor, makes me worthy and righteous. The promised Messiah, Jesus, is the only sinless, righteous person. As a believer, God sees me through my redeemer, my filter, Christ. He was broken, suffered, and died, so that you and I might live.
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