There are so many lost souls out in this world. So many people who daily refuse to accept the love of Christ. People who think that preaching the truth about Jesus and the whole story of salvation is nothing but negativity. But let me tell you, Jesus being beaten and tortured and
That, my dear friends, is LOVE.
That is true love. A love that will never fail. A love that will
"For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
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.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." -Isaiah 53:2-7
If that isn't love then I don't know what is! To read of everything my Jesus suffered for me just so I might live and not have to suffer the torments of hell is heart breaking! I did
Not only are we saved from the pits of hell because of what He suffered, but we are HEALED by His stripes!! I've never looked at this verse the way the Lord just showed it to me. I've always looked at as more of a promise of healing. But tonight, I see it differently. Jesus was beaten almost endlessly so that we might me healed. He suffered because He wanted to be able to heal us. It's not that we are healed because He suffered but the opposite. He suffered so that we might be healed. Pretty amazing stuff, huh?
But, ya wanna know what's even MORE amazing??
Throughout all of this. Being beaten and mocked and spit upon and hated, He NEVER opened His mouth in complaint. He never called on the angels to save Him. He never told God He was unable to go on. He just kept pressing through the pain and torture. He did it for me. For you. For EVERYONE! He did out of pure LOVE. He knew that even after all of this, there would be people who would still reject Him, but He kept on going.
Oh how He amazes me!!!
♪♪ I could sing of His love forever, I could sing of His love forever.♫♫
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