After the party
Before we get too carried away with the party, we need to remember what it was going to take for the Messiah to fully come. Yes there is celebration, but there is also pain, humiliation and suffering.
God’s Servant Must Suffer
4The LORD God gives me
the right wordsto encourage the weary.
Each morning he awakens me
eager to learn his teaching;
5he made me willing to listen
and not rebel or run away.
6I let them beat my back
and pull out my beard.
I didn’t turn aside
when they insulted me
and spit in my face.
7But the LORD God keeps me
from being disgraced.
So I refuse to give up,
because I know
God will never let me down.
8My protector is nearby;
no one can stand here
to accuse me of wrong.
9The LORD God will help me
and prove I am innocent.
My accusers will wear out
like moth-eaten clothes.
Though Jesus is beaten and insulted, he is not disgraced. He takes what he needs to – to complete the job he has come to do. He takes the pain, the anger and humiliation on himself – because he could.
Yet he is innocent…
Jesus
you were innocent,
yet you bore the pain and anger of people who misunderstood.
Whilst me…
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