I am rerunning a post from 2018. This caught my eye as I was searching for something to share with you as a part of Lent.
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He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hid their faces he was
despised and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:3 (ESV)
This verse speaks of Jesus
Christ and what he endured at the end of His time here on earth.
The rulers and teachers
loathed him and plotted to rid their world of Him. These ‘holy’ men shunned
Him and brought trumped-up charges against our LORD.
The truth is, Jesus let
himself be dealt with like this because he knew it was His Father’s plan. Yes,
He was to take the sorrows of each of us upon Himself. He also took on our
regrets and our grief. No one else will ever do this for us.
The Pharisees stirred up the
people present in Jerusalem to become a mob bent on ridding their people of
this ‘infidel.’
At the end of His life on
earth, people treated Jesus as if he was a pariah, a persona non- grata.
The last phrase and we esteemed him not, almost breaks
my heart. The people of that time did not value Him. I wonder, do we value
Jesus today, as we should? Do we value him when we use language that demeans
Him? Do we honor Him when we speak unkindly about someone else? Are we honoring
Jesus when we carry a tale and maybe embellish it? What about when we have bad
thoughts? One day we will hear from God whether we have been disrespectful to
God and to His Son.
Yes, I agree with the phrase, "and we esteemed Him not"...being one that breaks our hearts. We look around us and see that many still do not esteem Christ, and as the days go by, fewer and fewer recognize the great sacrifice He made for our lives so that we would be set free from our sins. So very sad and heart breaking. Thank you for this very thoughtful post.
ReplyDeletePam: Esteeming Christ is central to our belief and our faith in God. Peace and blessings to you and yours. I will email you later with what is on my mind.
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