Lord's Day Devotion - Whose Ballpark?

 Whose park is the ball in now?  It wasn't God's fault that Jesus was stricken, smitten and afflicted.  No way!  It was my fault.  It was your fault.  It was mankind's fault.

"We all, like sheep, have all gone astray each of us has turned to his own way" (Isaiah 53:6).

This is the great 'why'?

"...the LORD laid on Him [Jesus] the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:6).

Jesus was crushed, oppressed, cut off from the land of the living for our sakes.  We pray,

"Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven" (Matthew 6:10).

Thanks be to God, Jesus is alive again and sits at the right hand of God interceding for us. 

The only time in the history of time that this 100% submission to the Father's will fully happened was when  Jesus was on earth.  Jesus said, "Not my will but Yours, Father..." (Luke 22:42).

And it was,

"the  LORD's  will to crush and  cause Him mto suffer..." (Isaiah 53:10).

Oh what a Savior that He died for me, you and all mankind.  It allowed 

"the will of the LORD to prosper in His offspring's hand" (Isaiah 53:10).

God was satisfied.  He did not take this crushing and suffering of His Son lightly.  He was bearing the sin of many and making intercession for us earthlings. We were/are the transgressors (Isaiah 53:11-12)!  It was God's gift flowing from costly grace.

O, fellow brother and sister-in-Christ, get a good glimpse of this.  May it spark in our hearts what needs to be sparked as on this LORD's Day we bow in reverence and before Him and in solemn rememberance pass the bread and cup o wine one to another, eating and drinking, in great gratefulness and thanksgiving to Him who did His Father's will so completely.  Praise God through whom all blessings flow.

May each reader chose this gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.  He went through so much for our sakes.  Those of us who have accepted Jesus as Savior live, worship and serve Him like you never have before.  The ball is now in our park!

I wrote this earlier this morning but just want to leave one  more verse with you all which came up later in our service this morning.

"For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people" (Titus 2:11).

                                                  ~ ERC  February 2022 ~

Based on Isaiah 53 NIV; plus all other references taken from NIV.

Sing, O What a Savior that He Died for Me, along with the MagherafeltPresbyterianFreeChurch.

Sing also, Only By Grace, Graham Kendrick.