Isaiah 53 has always been close to my heart. Though there are many prophetic verses and passages that explain the coming of the Lord and His ministry to come, Isaiah lays it out in a way that deepens the sacrifice of His human life, the fear or facing death and resurrection, the grave that never suited Him and could not hold Him. Jesus came to earth to save the lost, but He was in world He had only know from afar. We can see His loss. Make no mistake, He was all God and all man, but without sin. While we are to imitate and follow Him, there is no one who compares to Him.
Imagine coming from a place of peace to a dark and turbulent world, filled with sin and violence and in need of Savior. Anna and Simeon had revelation. Some thought he was Elijah, others John the Baptist, only divine revelation made Peter declared Him the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God. And yet, he even denied Him. Jesus was not without His Father but had to pray, to seek Him in the Spirit, He was as human as we are, but without sin. He was still as perfect as God. But He chose to experience humanity and was prepared to die in order to redeem it, but not all believe.
Isaiah says that there is no beauty, some definitions say honor, about Him. But we know that He is described as the altogether lovely bridegroom in Song of Solomon 5:16. Beaten and scourged, when the law was one or the other, never both. He was unrecognizable as a man, a bloody, disfigured and bruised Lord that had still a crown of deep thorns, and a royal robe torn from His body as He cried out from the cross, the women a far off.
He was never made for a cross or a tomb, yet had been wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a stone manger. Peace was on the earth in the form of a child, yet there was no peace. Few recognized the significance of His birth and the ones who did adored Him and the ones who feared Him sought to kill Him. Isn’t the world the same today? Perhaps, the people? Or at least many of them. There is a lot of deception abounding, and we are inundated with images and have to be mindful of how and even who we worship. Everybody may interpret their own ideas of Jesus, but He remains the Son of the Living God.
The cemetery and the burn pile were for the dead and the criminal, the wicked. He only ” borrowed ” a tomb. Lazarus came out and was still bound, but Jesus has left the linen and the napkin folded as a sign that He would return. We have just celebrated Easter/ Resurrection Day and Passover, and Pentecost is coming. He longs to pour out His Spirit as He did then, but I am mindful of revivals. I believe that true repentance and revival will be stirred in hearts before He comes for a figurative ” pure bride “. We are not quite there as He separates wheat from tares, wise from unwise, perception from deception.
The world is waiting for a Savior again, but are they looking to Christ, a reincarnation of Him, one who declares himself God and Jesus the impersonator? It is time to look to Jesus, the one who was pierced, and see what depths He went to to redeem us as believers. His wounds were deep. Both body and soul, you can read the anguish of His humanity. Because He cared for humanity, He came as a human, but suffered and never sinned, the perfect sacrifice, the perfect Lamb of God. Don’t mistake Him as a Bible character, a teacher, just a persecuted man. Jesus knows that there are extremists of all kinds, but let me tell you, His wounds were extreme, His love is extreme. But He has been given authority and He is the only way there will be true peace.
Look to the description of Him in Isaiah 53, each and every line of what God allowed Him to suffer in order to save us. We all have wounds, wounds that are real, imagined, painful and deep, thoughts, worries and fears. We torment ourselves and the devil torments enough. Some wounds heal in time, others are scars, tender to touch or painful to recall or face down, to let go. Some wounds are so deep, whether grief, loss or being unloved, abused, even just left out. But what- ever the wound, I can promise, though it might appear to be as horrible, it is not, compared to what Jesus went through, and there are wounds of the body, heart, mind and soul, that only He can heal.
He offers forgiveness and healing, deliverance and His peace, John 14:27. His Spirit delves deep into the hearts and minds, the very essence and soul of every believer. He sees every hurt, sorrow and tear. John 11:35 says He wept over Jerusalem. I know He wept for us as well. Will you read and read Isaiah 53 and let it soak into each wound? Because some wounds, only He can heal.
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