My Good Servant

As I am writing this, it is pouring rain and the forecast says we will have heavier rain tomorrow — not much sign of the sun! But of course we know sunshine will return and the gardens will blossom abundantly because of the rain.

Isaiah chapter 53 is in many ways like a dull rainy day but because of all that it tells us the sunshine of God's salvation comes shining through in the most amazing colours. And all of this comes to pass because of what the Lord Jesus Christ God's 'good (righteous) servant' has done.

This chapter of the Bible shows us in vivid and sad detail all that our Lord Jesus suffered and endured as he went to his death on the cross. It is the saddest chapter in the Bible for we realise that all the suffering of Jesus was not for any wrong thing he had done but to pay the debt for all the wrong things we had done — all the reasons that made us not right with God. But we read "My good servant (Jesus) will make many people right with God". That is what Jesus has done.

It is for that reason what we can sing: "Bearing shame and scoffing rude In my place condemned he stood; Sealed my pardon with his blood: Hallelujah! What a Saviour!" (P. Bliss)

Prayer

Thank God for "His good servant" - Jesus!