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November 27 - Isaiah 53 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Thank you for tapping on play
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  and inviting me into your day because you and I, we've got
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  some work to do. It's Monday.
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  It is the 27th of November and we are now, oh, we've only got 3
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  and a bit weeks left getting through the last parts of
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  Isaiah. And this week we come to the end
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  of this section, which is kind of the second broad section of
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  Isaiah. This is the section where Isaiah
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  is talking words of comfort from God to God's people who are
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  exiled far away in Babylon. And there is a lot of talk about
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  the servant and different different entities are going to
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  be God's servant. At some point.
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  Israel will be God's servant. At some point, Cyrus, who will
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  lead down from Persia, who is going to be God's servant and
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  will give what for to the the Babylonians for all of their
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  nasty dealings, shall we say. And yes, there will also be some
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  hints toward a messianic servant.
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  So this is the time when God is talking about how he is going to
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  restore his people in so many different ways, and not just His
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  people, but His land for them too.
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  So as we continue on this journey, let us put down
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  whatever it is that's bubbling away in our brains on this busy
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  old Monday and come before God and say, Holy Spirit, let us
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  hear your words to us as we read through these words written down
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  so long ago, but alive and well in your word today.
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  You ready? Me too.
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  Let's do it. Let's read together.
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  Isaiah, chapter 53. Who has believed our message?
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  To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
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  My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a 10° in shoot,
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  like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or
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  majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
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  He was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows acquainted with
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  deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and
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  looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not
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  care. Yet it was our weakness he
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  carried. It was our sorrows that weighed
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  him down, and we thought his troubles were punishment from
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  God, a punishment for his own sins.
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  But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.
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  He was beaten so we could be whole.
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  He was whipped so we could be healed.
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  All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
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  We have left God's paths to follow our own.
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  Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
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  He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a
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  word. He was led like a lamb to the
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  slaughter, and as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he
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  did not open his mouth. Unjustly condemned, he was led
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  away. No one cared that he died
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  without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream.
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  But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people.
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  He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone, but he
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  was buried like a criminal. He was put in a rich man's
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  grave, but it was the Lord's good plan to crush him and cause
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  him grief. Yet when his life is made and
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  offering for sin, he will have many descendants.
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  He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's good plan will
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  prosper in his hands. When he sees all that is
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  accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied.
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  And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make
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  it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will
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  bear all their sins. I will give him the honors of a
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  victorious soldier. Because he exposed himself to
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  death, he was counted among the rebels.
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  He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.
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  Our Lord written so long before Jesus time.
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  We just cannot help seeing the profound parallels between
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  Isaiah's words and what would be to come so far into the future.
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  You are incredible and your plans extend deep into the
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  future. In previous chapters Lord, you
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  mock to the other gods because they don't know the future.
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  Only you, Lord, only you hold the world and the future and our
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  future in your hands. Let us never be tempted to trust
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  in any other power other than you for our future with our
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  plans. You are glorious.
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  You are all knowing. You sit outside of time and
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  space, but also intimately within them, journeying through
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  each day with us. We love you when we praise you,
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  and it's in Jesus name that we pray all these things.
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  Amen.