Why Did Jesus Die?

REFERENCE: Isaiah 53:4-6 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! 5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. 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.

Observation: It is amazing to observe all that Jesus took to the cross for us. It was not just our sin, it was our sorrows, our rebellion, our brokenness and unwholeness. What it tells us is that we live far below our birthright. We know that we don´t have to live under the control and power of sin, but we don´t realize that we don´t have to give into undue sorrow (it is not that Jesus came to save us from the natural grieving process, but by faith He came to rescue us for sadness that is unnecessary, unrelated to what is really happening in life and debilitating). When we can not get our flesh to submit to our spirit, we need to look to the cross where our rebellion died. How often we feel less than whole, lacking, somehow, in who or what we are. Jesus died to win us completeness and total fullness as a person.

How do we actuate all of this? Through prayer and faith. We need to ask for it and believe that if Jesus was willing to die to win it for us, then as His children, we deserve to have it.

Application/Confession: How often I simply give into a sense of sadness, of brokenness and incompleteness when I ought to be contending for what Jesus won for me.

PRAYER: Lord, thank you that You died not only so that I can be free from the dominion of sin but from my weaknesses and sorrows as well. Teach me to walk in all that You have won for me. I refuse undue sadness, I choose not to live in weakness any longer. I choose Your strength and joy instead.