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So Beautiful!

Written by FAVORED1 on April 2, 2010 – 11:30 am -

Friday, April 2, 2010

Who has believed our message?
      To whom has the Lord revealed His powerful arm? My Servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.  There was nothing beautiful or majestic about His appearance, nothing to attract us to Him. He was despised and rejected— a Man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.  We turned our backs on Him and looked the other way.  He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses He carried; it was our sorrows that weighed Him down.  And we thought His troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for His own sins! But He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.  He was beaten so we could be whole.  He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.  We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all.  He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet He never said a word.  He was led like a Lamb to the slaughter.  And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, He did not open His mouth.  Unjustly condemned, He was led away.  No one cared that He died without descendants, that His life was cut short in midstream.  But He was struck down for the rebellion of My people.
    He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone.  But He was buried like a criminal; He was put in a rich man’s grave. But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush Him and cause Him grief.  Yet when His life is made an offering for sin, He will have many descendants.
   He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in His Hands. When He sees all that is accomplished by His anguish,
      He will be satisfied.  And because of His experience, My Righteous Servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for He will bear all their sins. I will give Him the honors of a Victorious Soldier, because He exposed Himself to death.  He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

[Isaiah 53 New Living Translation]

So Beautiful!

Good Afternoon Beloved,

God is good and His mercy endures forever! I hope this beautiful Good Friday finds you well and in good spirits. What happened to my Savior on my behalf was ugly, but He is beautiful beyond all comprehension. We will never fully understand the depth of His love, nor the agony of His Crucifixion. “The Passion of the Christ”, by Mel Gibson was an excellent depiction. I heard Jim Caviezel (the actor who portrayed Jesus), talk about his experiences while working on the film. He was struck by lightning and left virtually unharmed, his shoulder was dislocated, he was left on the cross for hours…everybody forgot he was there as they broke for lunch… he was accidentally struck by the whip, (which left him with a permanent scar), he developed pneumonia and suffered hypothermia as sudden wind gusts rocked the cross he was on. Talk about suffering for your art! He believed so adamantly that it was a film that needed to be made, that to this day he has no regrets. His prayer was for someone not to see him, but to see Jesus and be converted. His prayer was answered… many people came to Christ as a result of this movie, including a Muslim actor who portrayed one of the soldiers. Countless lives have been changed, and Christians whose relationship with God had grown stale and stagnant were revitalized, and fell in love with Jesus all over again! Powerful! It reminded us that the price Jesus paid for us was staggering! He died for us… can we live for Him? (umph..I heard you this morning Janelle..thank you for the reminder) He rose again, so that we could rise with Him, so that we could be seated with Him in Heavenly places, and not us alone, but the invitations have gone out to all humanity! “Whosoever will …” !