Isaiah 53:2

 

One truly pathetic angle of this statement is that it was our fault that he was uncomely. Of course it takes a “born again” man to really appreciate the beauty of Jesus. We’re so dumb spiritually that we don’t know gold when we see it, but I’m not talking about that here.

 

What I AM saying is that we are like someone drowning in a cess pool that won’t receive our rescuer because now he stinks. He only stinks because he got in the mess to save us.

 

We hit Him and then turn away because He’s bruised. We won’t trust Him and then we wonder why He is not joyful in our presence. He is grieving for us.

 

Teenagers are like this with their parents. They behave irresponsibly and then scoff because their parents aren’t jovial, cool and carefree. Little do they know that before they came along their parents probably WERE cool and carefree.

 

Jesus stooped to enter our mess. He then allowed all of our sin to come between Him and His Father (His only true companion), so that He could legally pour out His Spirit into our dead souls.

 

Are we ready to be kind to those who hate us even when we are trying to minister to them? Unless it is the very Spirit of Jesus working in us we won’t be.