Isaiah 53:3-4 (NIV)
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of
suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4 Surely he took up our pain and
bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and
afflicted.
There were those who knew the good works of Christ, yet
He was rejected and made to suffer. Then He took up our sin on the cross and
bore our suffering. Some believed God was punishing Him, but it was God’s plan
all along to offer the perfect sacrifice for man’s sin through Jesus Christ Our
Lord.
In 1927, the famous English poet and essayist T.S. Eliot
became a Christian and was baptized and confirmed. Prior to his conversion,
Eliot belonged to London's Bloomsbury Group, a small, informal association of
artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in the Bloomsbury area of
central London. But when news of Eliot's conversion hit the news, the
Bloomsbury Group responded with shock and even disgust. The writer Virginia
Woolf, the de facto leader of the group, penned the following letter to one of
her peers:
I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with
dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all from this day forward. He has
become a [believer] in God and immortality, and he goes to church. I was
shocked. A corpse would seem more credible than he is. I mean, there's
something obscene in a living person sitting by the fire and believing in God. [Joseph Loconte, A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a
Great War (Thomas Nelson, 2015), pp. 124-125]
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