Isaiah 53

Have you ever met someone who thinks they know things? I mean, they really, truly think they know what is going to happen in the future. They'll tell you who's going to win a game, who's going to get kicked off your favorite show, what's going to happen next when watching a movie for the first time. They do these things, but you never hear them do it in the past tense. As if it has already happened. But, the Bible prophecies about Christ are just like that.
This chapter Isaiah 53 has so much in it, so much info, so much truth and yet it was written hundreds of years before Christ appeared on earth. The interesting thing is the way it is written.
Who has believed our mssage and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. he was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and afamiliar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Every bit of that was written in a way that Isaiah knew how it would go, how it would all end hundreds of years before it happened. That is the power of the Word of GOd, that is the power of vision when you are tuned in to God. If you will tune yourself to God, and keep that clear connection in your daily life, He will reveal to you more and more of His plan for your life. And you too, will speak in the past tense of things that have yet to happen.
Thanks for reading and have a Happy Easter!

jeff