The Price of Love
By: Amy Boucher Pye
Today’s Reading: Isaiah 53:9–12
He bore the sins of many.
Isaiah 53:12
Our daughter burst into tears as we waved goodbye to my parents. After visiting us in England, they were starting their long journey back to their home in the US. “I don’t want them to go,” she said. As I comforted her, my husband remarked, “I’m afraid that’s the price of love.”
We might feel the pain of being separated from loved ones, but Jesus felt the ultimate separation when He paid the price of love on the cross. He, who was both human and God, fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy 700 years after Isaiah gave it when He “bore the sins of many” (Isaiah 53:12). In this chapter we see rich pointers to Jesus being the suffering Servant, such as when He was “pierced for our rebellion” (v. 5), which happened when He was nailed to the cross and when one of the soldiers pierced His side (John 19:34), and when “he was whipped so we could be healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
Because of love, Jesus came to earth and was born a baby. Because of love, He received the abuse of the teachers of the law, the crowds, and the soldiers. Because of love, He suffered and died to be the perfect sacrifice, standing in our place before the Father. We live because of love.
We might feel the pain of being separated from loved ones, but Jesus felt the ultimate separation when He paid the price of love on the cross. He, who was both human and God, fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy 700 years after Isaiah gave it when He “bore the sins of many” (Isaiah 53:12). In this chapter we see rich pointers to Jesus being the suffering Servant, such as when He was “pierced for our rebellion” (v. 5), which happened when He was nailed to the cross and when one of the soldiers pierced His side (John 19:34), and when “he was whipped so we could be healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
Because of love, Jesus came to earth and was born a baby. Because of love, He received the abuse of the teachers of the law, the crowds, and the soldiers. Because of love, He suffered and died to be the perfect sacrifice, standing in our place before the Father. We live because of love.
Jesus was the perfect sacrifice who died to give us life.
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