Isaiah 53:6 (NLT)
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left
God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
All of mankind has been stained with the original sin
brought into the world by Adam and Eve. We are bent on following our own ways
and disregarding God when He is trying to lead us down the correct paths of
life. Instead of walking with God we willfully and corruptly turned to our own
ways following the sinful nature that lives inside of us. Despite our desire to
go our own way The Lord has granted us mercy and grace from the transgression of
our sin.
According to the Chicago Tribune, on June 22, 1997,
parachute instructor Michael Costello, forty-two, of Mt.Dora, Florida, jumped
out of an airplane at 12,000 feet altitude with a novice skydiver name Gareth
Griffith, age twenty-one.
The novice would soon discover just how good his
instructor was, for when the novice pulled his rip cord, his parachute failed.
Plummeting to the ground they faced certain death.
But then the instructor did an amazing thing. Just before
hitting the ground, the instructor rolled over so that he would hit the ground
first and the novice would land on top of him. The instructor was killed
instantly. The novice fractured his spine in the fall, but he was not
paralyzed.
One man takes the place of another, takes the brunt for
another. One substitutes himself to die so another may live. So it was at the
cross, when Jesus died for our sins. [Choice Contemporary Stories and
Illustrations, Baker Books, compiled by Craig Brian Larson, pg57.]
We may all have turned to our own ways, but God still
offers a chance for redemption. God gave His son Jesus Christ to atone for our
sin. It’s up to us to acknowledge our
sin, have a desire to repent from the sin, and place our faith and trust in
Christ who died for us.
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