Hello ,

"For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
³ He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

⁴ Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵ But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."

Isaiah 53:1-6 (NKJV)

Sometimes, during the holiday season we get so caught up in the festivities of it all, that we forget why Jesus came to planet earth in the first place. 

Jesus came from paradise to "paradise-lost" because, without His sacrifice you and I would be lost for eternity. He took what we deserved, so that we could have what He deserves. 

That's good news!

 

Have a great day and God bless!

 

Pastor Mike / The Open Word