| “But he was pierced for our transgressions…” |
| —Isaiah 53:5a |
We were held hostage by sin. That’s the condition in which we came into this world. We were born already stained by Adam’s sin, which we inherited from our parents. From the day of our birth onward, we added to our inherited sin our own long list of willful acts of disobedience.
Trapped, held captive by sin, we needed someone to redeem us, someone to pay the price for our transgressions. In 1865, Elvina M. Hall, wrote a gospel song that encapsulated this truth in these words:
Jesus paid it all.
All to Him I owe.
Sin had left its crimson stain.
He washed me white as snow.
But, at what price did our Savior redeem us? The Prophet Isaiah wrote these words in Isaiah 53:5-6:
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Such an enormous price—a price we could never have paid on our own. Jesus paid this price to redeem us, to release us from the captivity of our sins. Let us bow in humble gratitude at the beginning of this new day. Let us rise up and declare with joy that Jesus has paid the price for our salvation. Let us go out into the world today prepared to share, with great joy, the good news of the price that was paid for our redemption.
Based on a blog originally posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2016
