Still no wifi, so brief again tonight! Just wanted to regress a bit to recognize that we did not discuss the last phrase of last week's verse that is actually reflected again in this week's verse.
"...and by His stripes we are healed."
While I have heard this verse used as a claim to physical healing, I view it much more as our claim to total and absolute healing as children of God to be healthy for our eternal lives, which is where God wants us to have our focus anyway. Christ's stripes were a result of the lashing that He took at the hands of the Roman soldiers....but the result of that lashing, humiliation and ultimate crucifixion is our life...our eternal, wholly healthy life...restored to completeness to be the creatures God always intended us to be.
And then tonight... "the LORD has punished Him for the iniquity of us all."
There's not a one who this verse does not apply to! "We all..." is we all! You, me, our parents, our children.
Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe!"
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We owe our love and devotion to Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our salvation. God restores our soul through Jesus. We are forgiven and healed from all of our transgressions. Each time I stray Christ finds me and takes me In. I never want to stray so far that Christ cannot find me. I pray that my focus continues each day to be on my Lord - God Almighty.
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