"Important Things" - Too

 "This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:" (Ecclesiastes 9:13 KJV)

  "Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm? My servant grew up in the LORD'S presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected - a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. 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." (Isaiah 53:1-4 NLT

  As I was thinking about these next few verses, I had to wonder where Solomon saw this particular incident take place; or whether or not it might have been something the God showed him, which he seemed to take great interest in. This would have been about a thousand years before Jesus was born; at least 300 years before Isaiah had written that which we see in Isaiah 53 above. 

 We must understand how vulnerable it was for Jesus to come down as a little baby, because as Isaiah puts it: "like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground." In other words, He wasn't born in King's castle, or with much to keep Him safe and secure. He was raised as child without rich parents, or surroundings that would have been fit for a King. 

 Instead, He grew up poor and once He left home, He lift without anything but the cloths that He wore, setting out to save the entire world! A world that needed to be saved, as everyone that lived upon it was held in bondage to sin and death.

 His own people rejected Him, believing the Massiah would have to come as someone of great stature and yielding the power to deliver their nation from Roman rule. What a pity that they missed seeing who He really was, because the stature that He held and the power that He yielded did more than they could ever know! 

 There is something that is great, to which we will see; the wise, poor man, who saved the little city, although he wasn't thanked for doing so, he was pleased with what he had done...

"But it was the LORD'S good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the LORD'S good plan will prosper his hands. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous." (Isaiah 53:10-11 NLT)