DAILY?READINGS: 2 Sam. 18 to 19:8; Jeremiah 2 to 3:5; Gal. 4:1-20
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin. Isaiah 53:10
Seven hundred years before the event was accomplished, the prophet Isaiah answers the question as to how sinful humanity can be reconciled to a holy and righteous God. It was by the bruising and putting to death of His beloved and only Son. The amazing thing is that God was pleased to do it! This underlines the divine estimate of sin and the enormity and eternal consequences of it to humanity. Heaven is robbed of its best to save earth’s worst. This is inexpressible love! —Drew Craig
Love, the source of all my blessing; love that set itself on me;
Love, that gave the spotless Victim; love told out at Calvary.—R. D. Edwards