“With His Stripes We Are Healed.”
SIH’s Think On
These Things: Isa 53:4-9
Isa
53:4-9 (KJV) 4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried
our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5) But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace [was] upon
him; and with 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 hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7) He was oppressed, and
he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth. 8) He was taken from
prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut
off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he
stricken. 9) And he made his grave
with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no
violence, neither [was any] deceit in
his mouth.
What a blessing it is for
us to enjoy the physical and mental health that our Lord has so graciously
given to us. My Father used to always
tell me that no matter how our health may be failing us… “Just look around,
there is ALWAYS somebody worse off than us.”
Over the course of my life, I have found this to be a very true
statement. We all have a certain degree of mental and physical health to enjoy,
and therefore, we all owe the Lord thanks for the health that we enjoy.
Surely he hath borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted. But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace [was] upon
him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The blessings that we receive in this life, and the
next, all flow through the work of Jesus on the cross. Some of these blessings include the eradication
of: the calamities of life, the physical and emotional pains of life, our sins,
the judgment of our sins, as well as our physical sicknesses and afflictions.
His death is an absolute victory, therefore, everyone
in the above list will be done away totally when we enter into eternity (Rev
21:1-8). But for now, while we are yet
in our sinful flesh, every one of them still affects us and remains in our
presence. We still face calamities,
pains of life, sin, chastening for sin, and physical sicknesses. But we can rest assured, through the death of
Christ, perfect, absolute, salvation from all these issues will take place in
eternity.
Based upon the Lord’s sovereign will, and the work
of Christ on the cross, He controls our physical and mental ills that we face. He can choose to remove any given health
issue but He does not promise He will remove every physical issue before eternity
(Matt 4:23-25). Likewise there are times that He chooses to allow the
affliction to remain upon us for His glory and our good (2 Cor 12:1-9).
Also we need to consider how often He sovereignly
withholds a health issue from us, under which we would have otherwise suffered? Every day, when we wake up and enjoy any
level of heath, we should be a time of thanksgiving to God for the life and
health He has given to us.
All we like sheep have
gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all.
Why did He have to come and die? It was because of the presence of sin in the
world. It was because of OUR sin that He
suffered so brutally and died.
He was oppressed, and he
was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth. He was taken from prison
and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out
of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with
the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence,
neither [was any] deceit in his
mouth.
In these verses we have a description of the great
sacrifice He made on behalf of His people so that we might be saved.
Folks, with thankful hearts lets honor Him today for
the health He has given to us. And, most
importantly, let’s thank Him for the great sacrifice He made on our behalf securing
for us deliverance from our afflictions.
May the
Lord bless us as we “Think On These Things”.
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