When I read
this scripture, the first part perplexed me for it did not sound like the Lord
I know. “Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him with pain.” In further reading I found scripture that
interpreted this as “It better served God’s plan to have Him purged and
cleansed.” God intended to bring Christ
to the world as a new paradigm (that which is completely new and different from
that which has been before.) God had
sent prophets before whose words of prophecy were either ignored or soon
forgotten. The message of Christ was of
such importance that God did not want to chance the same results that had
occurred with other prophets, so it had to be totally new and different. God did this by starting with the virgin birth,
proclaiming “This is my Son, listen to Him.”, having Christ teach that love
should be the ruling emotion in our lives, and finally having Him falsely
tried, hung on a cross to die but with the final act of raising Him from the
dead. All of this showed Christ not as
another prophet whose words could be ignored or soon forgotten but as the “Son
of God” with a plan of salvation for all mankind for all generations, present
and future. And the really outstanding
part of this is it is not a complicated plan with a multitude of rules but a
plan as simple as trusting and accepting Him and taking Him as your personal
Lord and Savior.
Prayer: Holy Lord, when we read of your love for us,
we wonder how sometimes we can have such hardened hearts that prevent us from
following You fully. Grant that we may
put out trust in You and devote ourselves to spreading the message that You
have given us. Help us to love you and
love one another in Christ’ name. Amen.
Charles Boyd
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