October 12

 "His Voice Today"

October 12

🔸️ Our wound will bless others! 🔸️

Keeping the love and forgiveness in the midst of suffering is the key to bring out the "power of redemption". Our Lord Jesus possessed this "knowledge" as a revelation. That is why we read in Isaiah 53:11 "by His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities".

Lord Jesus knew that the secret of His power to transfigure people was only on the Cross! All the cruel wounds He suffered on the Cross were conducive to the redemption of this World.... Jesus is now calling us to that Cross!! (Matthew 16:24).

We can offer our sacrifices to God only on the altar of "wounding"!! The great truth about the power of this wound could only be found in Isaiah chapter 53. Yes, the peerless truth is, "Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him and cause him to suffer... and the will of the Lord will prosper in His hand" (Isaiah 53:10).

How did Jesus receive what was pleasing (God's will) to God? How that will was prosper in God's hand? The great secret is that when He was crushed, when He was wounded, when He was bruised, when He was oppressed and afflicted.... He did not respond to any of them, but surrendered himself to God as a sacrifice!

So, the crushed experience we are facing is not destructive at all! On the contrary, it is an peerless opportunity for us!!

Admitting ourselves to such crushing and expression of love may or may not touch the heart of the sinner who hurted us! But, it will surely touch the heart of God!

Prayer:

Our Heavenly Father! Just as we were healed by your scars, have mercy on us to forgive and bless those who hurted us! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Author:

 Brother Zac Poonen

Translated version of the Tamil "Family Meditation Book".

From:-

https://t.me/hisvoicetoday