He is Risen: Lent Devotional for Moms and KidsSample

He is Risen

by Tara Davis

Day 4: Isaiah (ornament in first “E” flag)

Read: Isaiah 53:2-5

Discuss: Long ago, hundreds of years before Jesus was born (700 in fact!), God sent prophets to begin instructing the hearts of God’s people to receive their Rescuer, the coming Messiah. One of these prophets was named Isaiah, and he loved the Lord. God revealed to Isaiah words to tell His people, prophecies of the Messiah’s birth, His life and His death. These prophecies told specific details about where the Messiah would be born, how He would come into this world, how He would live, and how He would die. Would the predictions given by God ever come true?

Our loving Father knows all things, He can see forward to a time far into the future and back in time to the beginning of creation and beyond. And He knows you! He knows your heart, your thoughts, the very number of hairs on your head. And He loves you! His love for you is so great that it reaches to the stars, to the very edge of the universe and all the way back to your heart. He wants people to know that He is God. He wants people to know that Jesus is the Rescuer, literally God in the form of a human who has come to save all those who love Him.

The purpose of Isaiah’s words, the prophecies given by God, was not simply to prepare people’s hearts for the Rescuer. The purpose of the prophecies was to give eternal proof of God’s love, of Jesus’ Lordship. This proof would stretch through time all the way to today. All of the prophecies came true. These prophecies show us that God’s Word can be trusted and that He has always had a plan in place to save us from eternal death. If we believe in Jesus as our Savior, we can know for certain that when we die our soul will live forever with the Lord in heaven and we will be given a new eternal body! Can you imagine how beautiful it will be? Trust in Jesus today!