"There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him." Isaiah 53:2
DAY 21- It has been a long two days of traveling and we are almost to Bethlehem Jerusalem Bethlehem
Joseph: I have a message to share with you from our friend Isaiah. Please listen closely for the importance of his words and the event he describes is what makes the arrival of our son so significant. Let’s put it this way the importance of His birth is the significance of His death.
"He was despised and rejected-a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins! But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the guilt and sins of us all. He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. From prison and trial they led him away to his death." Isaiah 53:3-8
My brothers and sisters you must store these words in your heart. Let them penetrate to the core of your soul. For this, though just a part of the prophecy, is what makes this journey, it is what makes the reason of our son’s birth so special. This is the reason we should celebrate, no not what He endured, but what He sacrificed. Today my friends we celebrate the life of Jesus’ death, because from His death we have received life!
We will stay here in Jerusalem
