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February 28
Thursday


PACK UP
YOUR SORROWS

READ:
Isaiah 53:1-6
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Surely He has borne
our griefs and
carried our sorrows.
__Isaiah 53:4
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During the turbulent years of the 1960s, popular music in America was a strange mixture of protest and patriotism. Some songs lashed out against war, greed, and injustice in society, while others affirmed duty to country and traditional values. But "Pack Up Your Sorrows," written by Richard Farina and Pauline Baez Marden, seemed to fit all of the categories with its focus on the quest for personal peace. The refrain said the following:
_______________Well, if somehow you could pack up_____________
______________your sorrows, /And give them all to______________
_____________me/You would lose them, I know how_____________
______________to use them/Give them all to me.________________

Perhaps everyone hoped that someone really could bring them peace.
The good news is that there is someone who can! Isaiah 53 is a prophetic picture of Israel's promised Messiah. Christians see its fulfillment in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. "Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows...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" (vv.4-5).

Jesus took our sins and sorrows on Himself so that we could be forgiven and have peace with God. Will you give Him your sorrows today? __David McCasland
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No sorrow is to heavy for our Savior to bear.

*****************Today's Bible Reading__Isaiah 53_1-6*********************

1 Who has believed our
report? And to whom has
the arm of the LORD been
revealed? 2 For he shall
grow up before Him as a
tender plant, and as a root
out of dry ground. He has
no form or comeliness; and
when we see Him, there is
no beauty that we should
desire Him. 3 He is despised
and rejected by men, a Man
of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. And we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we
did not esteem Him.

4 Surely He has borne our
griefs and carried our
sorrows; yet we esteemed
Him stricken, smitten by
God, and afflicted. 5 But 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. 6 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.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

There are four Servant Songs in Isaiah. Chapters 52:13-53:12 are the
clearest description in the Old Testament of the sufferings of Christ.
Isaiah 53 is a peak in the Old Testament as it takes us to the cross
of Jesus. Isaiah 53 describes the rejection of Christ (vv.1-3), His
vicarious suffering (vv.4-6), HIs sacrificial death and burial (vv.7-9),
and His reconciling atonement and resurrection (vv.10-12). Isaiah
had proclaimed God's blessings to a rebellious and sinful nation
(chs. 40-55). Chapter 53 tells us how this is made possible by the
suffering, sacrificial, substitutionary death of the Messiah (vv.4-6).