I have been meditating on Christ’s suffering for my personal sin. The thought of my Savior suffering and paying the penalty of death for me, is overwhelming. Not only every sin I would ever commit, but every sin that all of humanity would commit, He personally suffered and paid for so that I would not have to!

“Surely He has borne our grieves (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and iniquity of us all” (Is 53:4-6).

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