The Suffering Servant

"They shall see my Servant beaten and bloodied,

so disfigured one would scarcely know 

it was a person standing there.

So shall he cleanse many nations.

But oh, how few believe it!

Who will listen?

To whom will God reveal his saving power?

In God's eyes he was like a tender green shoot,

sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground.

But in our eyes there was no attractiveness at all,

nothing to make us want him.

We despised him and rejected him--

a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief.

We turned our backs on him

and looked the other way when he went by.

He was despised and we didn't care."

--Isaiah 52:15, 53:1-4

Such a growing

awful

awe-filled 

fullness within me

The more I read His word

the more I grow in wonder

The more I peer into the drama unfolding

the more aware I become

of the incomprehensible depth of His sacrifice

The more I mediate on this

Suffering Servant

the fuller my soul becomes

My words are few