"Broken!" - Too!

 "In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened." (Ecclesiastes 12:3 KJV) 

  "See, my servant will prosper; he will be highly exalted. But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man. And he will startle many nations. Kings will stand speechless in his presence. For they will see what they had not been told; they will understand what they had not heard about." (Isaiah 52:13-15 NLT)

 So, there are these four things, all of which are geared towards the symptoms of old age, which is bound to happen to anyone that lives beyond the age of seventy. However, I don't really know if there isn't some kind of relationship with this and what took place in that last day, the day when the Son of Man was torn and beaten, actually suffering a death He did not deserve.

 I had delivered a message on a Sunday, knowing full well that many would not really understand the true meaning of what I was trying to share. I was my turn to give the message, and we happened to be in the Scriptures found in Genises 27:1-40, which is when Jacob steals Esau's blessing. Oddly enough, my topic was drawn to Rebecca's challenge for Jacob, ending with Isaac's commitment to honoring the blessing he gave to Jacob, even though he was deceitful in getting blessed. 

 The point I tried to make involved Jacob's concern that it wasn't going to work, which is closely aligned with the questionable attitude of those that don't think Jesus dying on the cross took away their sins; saying, "I just don't see how that works!" 

 Add to that, is Jacob's blessing, which was meant for someone else, but he received it anyways; but more importantly, his father could not take it back! Even after he knew that he was deceived and tricked into giving Jacob the blessing, he refused to take it back and give to the one he actually intended it for. 

 You might think that is pretty weird and outside the box; but if you grew up like I did, you would see it in a little different light. We must believe in the cross of Christ; that it was only His brokenness that actually heals our brokenness; that we can be righteous, because His righteousness paid for our sins!   

 Some people just cannot see how that works, and even if they do, sometimes that don't think it sticks...

"Let me remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. It is the Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you - unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place." (1 Corinthians 15:1-2 NLT)