Jesus Carried Our Sorrows to Victory Sample

Who was Isaiah? He’s considered one of the greatest prophets of all time, and the book of Isaiah is one of the most frequently quoted books in the Bible.

In fact, when Jesus first began his public ministry, he stood in the synagogue and read from the book of Isaiah, chapter 61. He affirmed the message that Isaiah had written about him as the Messiah, some 700 years prior.

Could you imagine being in church on that day and hearing Jesus declare that he was the one that scripture was written about? Goose bumps!

The world had been waiting and holding its collective breath for 76 generations (four thousand years!) to see what God's redemptive plan for mankind would look like, and there he stood.

Many hoped to see a warrior king more skilled than David, someone stronger than Samson, or a military genius greater than Joshua. There would finally be an end to all the tyranny, injustice, evil, and cruelty forever.

Can you recall a time when you thought God was going to do something one way and then he did it a completely different way?

That is why the Lord says his ways aren’t our ways.

Jesus looked nothing like the superhero some thought they would be getting. Instead, he looked more like the man Isaiah described centuries earlier: someone average, without distinction, but also heavy burdened. “A man of sorrows and well acquainted with grief.”

He looked like someone who was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders because he was. He was carrying our burdens for us.