My Lord and my God!
Thank You! I.. am.. so.. sorry..! If I would have lived in Jesus' day, I pray that I would have recognized Him. But I know without the Holy Spirit, it is doubtful. Lord, thank you.... I love you and I try to follow you and thank and praise you daily for what you did, and that you didn't leave us at the cross, but came back to encourage us and let us know that we are forgiven, and that through Your Spirit, you walk with us daily and give us the strength and power to walk with You. I don't know how you made it to the finish, but I thank you. When I look at why You came, and how we treated you, and how you maintained to the end, I fall to my knees with thankfulness and humility. Thank You Lord Jesus is all I can say. Search my heart and know how grateful I am and how I want to know You more and more. I know that I walk in the Spirit that you sent to me. I ask you to reveal yourself to me day after day. You formed Adam from dust, I am Your clay. Mold me to the shape you want me to be. Make me more like you. Thank you Lord Jesus! Thank you!
Isaiah 52:13-15 NIV
[13] See, my servant will act wisely ; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. [14] Just as there were many who were appalled at him---his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness--- [15] so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.
Isaiah 53:1-12 NIV
[1] Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? [2] He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. [3] 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. [4] Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. [5] But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. [6] We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. [7] He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. [8] By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. [9] He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. [10] Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. [11] After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied ; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. [12] Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Have Hope! Revelation 21:1-5 -
