Isaiah 53:10 “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.”
It is beyond our greatest thought what our Father has
done for us. It brings me back to Abraham and what God told him to do with his
son, “And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest,
and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt
offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.” Gen
22:2 What would go through any father’s mind if God were to tell them to take
the very son that they loved so much and to sacrifice him on an altar. It
reminds me of all those parents that must have watched helplessly as their
children were martyred in the “dark ages”. No parent that loved their son or
daughter would have any pleasure in watching their child given as a sacrifice. The
tears and broken heart Abraham must have had as he began obeying God’s command.
“And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his
son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them
together.” But just as “Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the
knife to slay his son.” “the LORD called unto him out of heaven, God
said to Abraham, “Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing
unto him” for as Abraham looked, “behold behind him a ram caught in a
thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for
a burnt offering in the stead of his son.” I could only imagine how blessed
Abraham must have been feeling with God’s blessing. However, I could only
imagine how blessed Abraham would have felt if God had allowed him to follow
through with the sacrifice. It is a blessing to do anything that is pleasing
to our Father.
As we turn our attention to Jesus, the very Son of God
in the flesh. As we think of everything He suffered, the humility of the
arrest, the horrible beating He took, and then the hours He spent on the cross
in unimaginable pain. He had all the power; He could have come off the cross
and destroyed those wanting Him dead. He could have called legions of angels, “Thinkest
thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more
than twelve legions of angels?” Mat 26:53 But no, He could not, “But how
then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?” Jesus was
here to fulfill the Fathers will and His will was for Jesus to go through
everything He did, even on the cross of death. Why did the Father feel so much
pleasure, it was all because He loved us. Jesus was the only being in all
the world and all of creation that could accomplish this great task, for there
was no other. No “ram caught in a thicket by his horns” This Son’s sacrifice
was to cleanse the sins of every redeemed soul that God was going to save.
Therefore, the Father “shalt make his soul an offering for sin,” and
rejoice in His death. Our Heavenly Father was not selfish, He was not greedy,
He was not ashamed, He was pleased in every possible way. “Yet it pleased
the LORD”. What an act of pure love our Selfless Father has done for sinners
like us. As we look at the grace that God had for us in sending the only worthy
Saviour as our Redeemer. Let us all rejoice today and everyday until we are
with the Lord. We all have so much to be thankful for, because without God
sacrificing His own dear Son, we would have all went to hell.
