Day 37: By His Wounds We Are Healed

Luke 9:52-53
⁵² And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; ⁵³ but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem.


You know, if you look on the surface, Jesus had a pretty miserable life. There are a few shining moments - the Triumphal Entry, for example, or the feeding of the 5,000 - but for the most part, you see things like this. People rejected him, forsook him, denied him, and betrayed him.


And yet he still suffered and bled and died for us. The very ones who did these things to him.


Amazing.


Isaiah 53:3-6: "He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."