Friday

the anguish of His soul

All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation,
who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people,
to whom the stroke was due?
His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
But the LORD was pleased To crush Him,
putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors


What do I learn about the Father through what His Son went through?

My Father took my sins into His hands and placed them upon HIS Son.

The Light Bringer placed his hands upon the goat for Azazel and placed the iniquities of Israel upon the goat for Azazel.

This is no abstract concept, no distant scene. This is my Father who loves me desperately, taking my transgressions and iniquities into His own hands and placing them upon the head of His Son. This is His Son, my Saviour, willingly carrying that burden upon His soul and delivering it to where they belong....the pit, the grave, the abode of the Prince of this world.

This is my Father and His Son and the Holy Spirit with their soul laboring under the burden of iniquity and grieving.
This is my Father satisfied.
This is my Father beholding me as cleansed and righteous.
This is my Father's full knowledge and of what His Son, the Righteous One, has done.
This is my Father never abandoning my soul to darkness.

This is what has been accomplished for us as we believe in Him.

Our Father allowed our sins to be placed on His Son but He did not allow His Son's soul to stay in the pit with our sins and He will never allow my soul to go to the pit of hell. What an active role the Father had....how could I have not seen that before?

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