Christ Suffered for our sins

Today's scripture mastery is Isaiah 53:3-5

 3 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.

 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah saw in vision many years before Christ was born that Christ would suffer for our sins.  He wrote a lot about Christ.  In fact, this being the Christmas season, I wanted to point out that Handel's Messiah, the classic Christmas choir song (one of my favorites) comes from the words of Isaiah.  For example, read this verse from Isaiah 9:6

 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Here is a link to the Halleluja Chorus from Handel's Messiah, if you would like to listen to it:  (linked from Wikipedia)  I know that the verse above is not in this particular recording I have linked here, but many others from Isaiah are.  Enjoy!

Isaiah, though he is difficult for me to to understand in many places, prophesies a lot about Christ and the wonderful gift of the Atonement.  Isaiah knew that Christ would come, and that in and through Him, we could be forgiven of our sins.  I am very grateful for Christ.  I hope to be able to keep the spirit of Christmas with me the whole year.