'ஆதவன்' 📖✝ வேதாகமத் தியானம் - எண்:- 1,145 💚 மார்ச் 29, 2024 💚 வெள்ளிக்கிழமை 💚
'AATHAVAN'
📖✝ BIBLE MEDITATION No:- 1,145 💚 March 29, 2024 💚 Friday 💚
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he
was despised, and we esteemed him not." (Isaiah 53:3)
It has been about 2750 years since the prophet Isaiah wrote today's meditation verse. These verses were written by him after seeing the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ in a vision. We compare this today with the sufferings of Christ 2000 years ago. However, this can be compared not only to the sufferings he experienced that day, but also to the situations where we, like the Jews, ignore him even though we claim to be Christians.
Yes, he wasn't just shunned
two thousand years ago. Even today, he remains a disgraced person. We insult
Christ when we say that his teachings are not practical. We despise him when we
deny or make evangelical declarations against the life of witness and Christian
original teaching; Or ignore it.
When we preach that Christ
came into the world as a social worker just for the sake of social change, we
ignore him. When we preach by distorting the spiritual teachings of Christ and
comparing them with communist ideologies under the name of liberation theology,
when we turn our hearts and refuse to accept Christ in our lives, we ignore him.
Above all, we neglect Him when we mourn for Him only on Good Fridays without
realizing any of these.
Of
these, says Isaiah, “we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and
we esteemed him not." Yes, beloved, he was forsaken of men, sorrowful, and
afflicted; from him we hid our faces; he was despised; we counted him
not." It is something that is still going on today.
He
is neglected by men, sorrowful, and suffering when we run to Him for worldly
blessings, denying that He shed His blood, died for us, and showed us the way
to eternal life. We ignore him.
Christ
suffered and died to make us holy. He made eternal redemption through His
blood. If we want our sins to be forgiven, we should carry them and confess
them to Him. Without doing this, there is no use in observing mere prayers and
empty rituals year after year. By doing so, we are ignoring him.
That
is why the author of Hebrews said, “And so Jesus, also, to purify the people by
his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore, let us go out to him
‘outside the camp,’ bearing the same reproaches as he (Hebrews 13:12, 13). Yea,
beloved, let us bear his reproach and go forth unto him outside the camp. We
will receive the assurance that our sins are forgiven, and we will receive a
new life.
God’s Message :- Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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