Reproach has Broken My Heart

“Reproach has broken My heart, and I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They also gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. For they persecute the ones You have struck, and talk of the grief of those You have wounded. [1]

This reproach, this heaviness, this aloneness, this torture, this persecution, this grief, and these wounds were for our sake and for our salvation.

“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. 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.” [2]

The cruel treatment that Jesus Christ endured was for our sin. He gave perfect obedience to God. We gave proneness to sin for which He had to pay dearly.

All sin matters. Humanity’s sin cost the Son of God great pain, grief, and death. Murder, lying, deceiving, hatred, unfaithfulness, fornication, adultery, gossip, unforgiveness, thievery, greed, rivalry, and selfishness! The fruit of a sin nature. Sin is the deadliest pandemic. It really matters! It ends with death. And for those whose sin whose sin debt has not been paid, it costs an eternity of separation from God. An eternity in hell!

This is why the suffering of our Savior matters. He suffered not for His own mistake or misunderstanding, but for ours. He is the Lamb of God that takes away our sin. All we need to do to be saved is to appropriate Christ’s sacrifice on the cross by confessing Him as our Savior and Lord. Embrace Him whom God has sent to save you by trusting in Him and confessing Him!

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation! Selah Our God is the God of salvation; and to God the Lord belong escapes from death.” [3]

[1] Psalm 69:20-21, 26
[2] Isaiah 53:5-6
[3] Psalm 68:19-20