Sometimes I feel this way

Though Jesus, being the only one good, had far more reason to feel this way, sometimes I, with all my sin, feel that I am being mistreated. If I’d known His grief personally, I’d probably feel differently… Have you ever felt like this?

I don’t mean to blaspheme or anything, I’m just saying I feel like a martyr or a doormat at times. Jesus died for us all…

But to be truthful, the depth of my despair at times, I am at sea and feeling without a savior

Isaiah 53:1-5 (NKJV)



The Sin-Bearing Messiah

53 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.

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