Isaiah 53..‘He had no beauty.....’

 In spite of the description in Isaiah 53..‘He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.’People do see lives that are driven by that heart! Let us be thankful that true beauty that attracts, is born of a heart like Jesus’. Let us also remember that it is He whom we want others ultimately to be attracted to and not ourselves.Jesus attracted and continues to attract because in His sacrifice His True Beauty in Love is revealed. Amen!

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The Good News said…
We think we can control grief, but we can't. It can be trigger when we look at an old photo of a love one...or coming across a written letter that grips our heart..and what about when we enter a certain room and their fragrance fill our head. When by brother was transcending the verse "But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed." -Isaiah 53:5. I was in the background when I would hear these word spoken over and over to Joe. Now I Know these words were ministering to me for the years to come as grief would pop up it's ugly head. In Isaiah 53,Jesus was described as one that was with grief,He took on or sorrows. To really understand or grief we have to dig deep,Although Isaiah 53 is central to the topic of healing, it is often misunderstood and misapplied. The word “healed” as translated from both Hebrew and Greek, can mean either spiritual or physical healing. However, the contexts of Isaiah 53 and 1 Peter 2 make it clear that they are referring to spiritual healing, not physical. Our griefing is stirred up spiritually, just as Jesus took on our sin to the cross, can you image the sorrow of taking on our sins ..Taking control is a hallmark symptom of us grieving because we feel out of control, so we overcompensate and attempt to take more control. Usually our efforts fail. Once we understand that grief is a spiritual and not physical, we can lead on Jesus during those times of sorrow...
March 7, 2019 at 12:17 PM
The Good News said…
Been thinking about Jesus's journey to the cross, not only physically but I can't even imagine the mental and emotional impact. Isaiah 53, says he was a man of great sorrows..there was nothing that attracts us to him..a weed that sprouts up from the cracks of the ground. The abandonment in the garden of Gethsemane, which actually means oil press, John 18:2, were he prayed to God to take this cup from him, it's too much to be away from the Father...yet in Isaiah 53: 10 , it says it pleased the Lord to make him suffer..why because Jesus was obedient to him to take on our sins for a chance of salvation.
March 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM
The Good News said…
The Lord woke me up with a heavy heart ..... about how Jesus came to, care about our needs and wants, but we never even asked him how he feels. Isaiah 53: 3-6 (The Message): There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain first hand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed. We’re all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost. We've all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong, on him. But there was Mary Magdalene, she knew what the Lord had done for her, she came with the offering of taken some very expensive perfume and using her hair to anoint his feet. And she supported the ministry with her own money. And follow Jesus were ever he went. And was there to comfort Mother Mary and Brother John at the cross,and was the first to visit him at the tomb with herbs and spices to change his dressing.....But he has Risen!!!
I believe we all have at lease one Mary Magdalene, in our lives. The one that is always by our side in goodness and in health. The one that never leaves the hospital room when you were very ill, or hurt. The one that services you every meal come rain or shine. The one that cares about your day, how you feel... who will go that extra mile to make you happy. Thank God for those Mary Magdalene's in our lives......
March 28, 2019 at 1:55 PM
The Good News said…
I digged deeper and cross reference the experience Job had much like Jesus journey to Golgotha..That which afflicted him most of all was that God seemed to be his enemy and to fight against him. It was he that cast him into the mire (Job 30:19), and seemed to trample on him when he had him there. This cut him to the heart more than any thing else. That God did not appear for him. He addressed himself to him, but gained no grant—appealed to him, but gained no sentence; he was very importunate in his applications, but in vain (Job 30:20): “I cry unto thee, as one in earnest, I stand up, and cry, as one waiting for an answer.”
March 28, 2019 at 1:59 PM
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