Do you ever wonder if anyone understands what you go through? Someone who knows what it is to be lonely? Someone who
knows what it feels like to be rejected, looked down upon, treated like an outcast? Who knows what it is to hurt, to have
pain?
There is one........this is His story....
"Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we
see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement
for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
And they
made His grave with the wicked--
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD shall
prosper in His hand.
He shall see the labor of His soul,
and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant
shall justify many,
For He shall bear their
iniquities.
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with
the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession
for the transgressors."
(Isaiah 53 NKJV)
.....and His name is Jesus and He loves you passionatley!!!
And He loves you just for being you!!!!
When many think of Jesus they think of the "pretty" pictures of what is thought to be His "likeness". They do not
who Jesus really is.
Others may think of the story of His birth. Its much more though. Its the day that God came
to meet our inner most needs.
Many believe that God is distant, far removed from our lives, our needs, but He is much closer than you may
think!