Saturday, June 25, 2011

Who is healthy?

"For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
                                                                                                    Isaiah 53:12

I know there are some big words in this. This is a prophetical verse about Jesus, written several hundred years before hand. Jesus being without sin took the sins of the sinners as a burden upon himself and took the consequences for them. He interceded for the transgressors, which means he stepped in and drank from the cup of God's wrath, which belonged to us.

Jesus' people are the down and out, the lowest of the low. It's not the healthy that need a doctor but the sick, but aren't we all sick? are not all of our righteous acts as filthy rags before God? is it only the "sick" who know they are sick? who accept healing because they recognize their need for it? I only consider myself healthy because I have the great physician work on me every day. If it weren't for that, I would be a walking corpse! It's not about being strong or independent, but it's about being dependent on Christ and allowing him to take the reigns. The more we allow him to dwell in every aspect of our lives, the more our sickness leaves us. As light is shed in us, our darkness vanishes.

Isaiah 53:6
"We all, like sheep, have gone
astray,
each of us has turned to his own
way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all."

God give me a heart for the sinners.

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