Background info: my devos consist of praying for God to open my eyes/heart/ears to Him and keep me focused, reading His word, and the meditation on what I read. I told you a couple posts ago I was reading Jeremiah, and now I am reading Isaiah.
So today I was reading my devo from Isaiah outside because it feels SO good outside (IT'S ALMOST SPRING! YAHOOTIE!) and for once, I was completely focused and in tune with God. Hmm maybe I should do my devo outside more so that I don't fall asleep... Anyway, while I was reading, I couldn't grasp what I was reading so I stopped and prayed for concentration. I started reading again, and about two lines into it, I got really really excited. Like sit-up and-squeal-with-excitement excited.
I was reading Isaiah 53. Now just for some background info, Isaiah was written by the prophet Isaiah between the years 701 and 681 BC. That's 700 years BEFORE CHRIST. Keep that in mind as you read what Isaiah 53 says:
1 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.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
(courtesy of YouVerison.com)
Doesn't that get you really excited?? I know it did for me! Just reading that, I kept thinking, "HOLY CRAP! HOLY CRAP! GOD THIS IS SO AWESOME! THIS IS SO COOL! OH MY GOLDFISH!"
It's a prediction of Christ's sacrifice for us 700 years before he is born! I get excited over his sacrifice for me anyway, but seeing it predicted just makes it so much cooler. Because God kept His promise. He always keeps His promises. Always. Christ was a perfect sacrifice that took away all of our sins for all eternity. Through Him, we can see eternal life and be with Him forever.
I just thought it was SO COOL that His sacrifice was predicted and that prediction came true.
When you get the chance, read Isaiah 40 and 49-59. I read the latter today and it was so amazing (:. And I just love Isaiah 40 :D
God bless y'all! I hope you can see Him everywhere (because that's where He is)!
<3 Warrior
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