DAY 201 Read Isaiah 51 through 55.
Today's reading: What beautiful words these chapters contain! And, surrounded by assurances of God's forgiving love, the fifty-third chapter points to the suffering Messiah.
Memory gem: "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5).
Thought for today:
The theologians who seem to delight in long words, might say that we need justification, regeneration, and sanctification in order to get to heaven. These three needs make clear what the three steps are which we must take with Jesus as we turn to the right and start for the Holy City.
Our first need is to have our sins forgiven. To confess Christ as our Saviour from sin is our first step with Him. This step with Jesus must be taken by everyone because "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
In Isaiah 53:6 it is written that "all we like sheep have gone astray." Notice that word all. It is universal. Now read the whole text: "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."
Someone has said that salvation starts at the first "all" (all have sinned) and ends at the last "all" (the Lord hath laid on Him--Christ--the iniquity of us all). At the beginning of this wonderful verse, acknowledge that you are a sinner; and then at the end of the verse, by faith, lay your sins on Jesus.
I once heard of a young lady who was worried about her spiritual condition, for she couldn't understand how God could forgive her sins. An old minister told her to read the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, and when she came to the fifth verse, to substitute the first person singular pronoun for the plural form. And so she read it that way: "He was wounded for my transgressions, he was bruised for my iniquities: the chastisement of my peace was upon him." Ten she stopped, and wonderful light came into her eyes as she read, "And with his stripes I am healed."
That's it my friends! When Jesus died of a broken heart, it was the sins of the world that killed Him. Doesn't the Bible say in 1 John 2:2 that Jesus died "for the sins of the whole world"?
Today's reading: What beautiful words these chapters contain! And, surrounded by assurances of God's forgiving love, the fifty-third chapter points to the suffering Messiah.
Memory gem: "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5).
Thought for today:
The theologians who seem to delight in long words, might say that we need justification, regeneration, and sanctification in order to get to heaven. These three needs make clear what the three steps are which we must take with Jesus as we turn to the right and start for the Holy City.
Our first need is to have our sins forgiven. To confess Christ as our Saviour from sin is our first step with Him. This step with Jesus must be taken by everyone because "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
In Isaiah 53:6 it is written that "all we like sheep have gone astray." Notice that word all. It is universal. Now read the whole text: "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."
Someone has said that salvation starts at the first "all" (all have sinned) and ends at the last "all" (the Lord hath laid on Him--Christ--the iniquity of us all). At the beginning of this wonderful verse, acknowledge that you are a sinner; and then at the end of the verse, by faith, lay your sins on Jesus.
I once heard of a young lady who was worried about her spiritual condition, for she couldn't understand how God could forgive her sins. An old minister told her to read the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, and when she came to the fifth verse, to substitute the first person singular pronoun for the plural form. And so she read it that way: "He was wounded for my transgressions, he was bruised for my iniquities: the chastisement of my peace was upon him." Ten she stopped, and wonderful light came into her eyes as she read, "And with his stripes I am healed."
That's it my friends! When Jesus died of a broken heart, it was the sins of the world that killed Him. Doesn't the Bible say in 1 John 2:2 that Jesus died "for the sins of the whole world"?
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