Isaiah 53

One of the most significant and impacting chapters in the Bible focuses on Christ’s suffering and rejection. Nobody likes to aim for it, but without it (suffering), we would not have a redeeming Savior. “He was pierced FOR our transgressions,  He was crushed FOR our iniquities; … FOR the transgression of my people He was punished.”

Suffering without a redeeming purpose is senseless. Suffering for an eternal reward is necessary. Without Christ’s willingness to suffer, we’d be LOST. Because of it, we have a glorious future, and our sin is wiped away.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. [Heb. 12:11]