Jesus Did It For Me

Isaiah 53:5

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and with his stripes we are healed.

The prophecy that Isaiah wrote here, some 800 years before the actual event, is the whole gospel in a nutshell. He saw in the spirit that Jesus would die on the cross and that His death would be a substitution for any and all who would accept it.

I wonder if we really even begin to comprehend what all this really means. To think about it is really mind boggling. Just think for a moment about all that this means to us.

First, we were totally without any hope in this world. Sin had separated us from the God who had created us and there was no way that we could fix it. It was like there was a huge chasm between us and God and we had no means by which to bridge it.

Man was now living in a sin cursed world with sickness, disease, poverty and all sorts of other things that would cause him torture and torment all the days of his life..

That was bad enough, but it gets worse. The sin that separated us also condemned us. Not only were we separated from God, and that was bad enough, but we were also sentenced to an eternal torment that was originally intended for the devil and his angels. The Bible teaches that the soul that dies in sin is destined to eternity in a lake of fire and brimstone. This is not a funny sight is it?

Thank God for his unspeakable gift and Isaiah saw it in the spirit of prophecy. Notice what Jesus did for us. He paid for the sin that we could not pay for. He bridged the gap between God and man. He not only forgave us our sin by taking our sin on Himself and becoming sin for us, He also delivered us from the curse of that sin. Praise the Lord, Jesus did that for me.