The Suffering Servant.

   I was reading in my devotions this morning one of most powerful passages in the Old Testament.  Isaiah 53, is about the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Isaiah describes in detail what the suffering servant would face and how it would affect us and Him.  Then Isaiah makes it clear what would be accomplished by His death.  Jesus would face all the things described in this passage and more.  He would die in our place and give us salvation and victory.  He would secure us victory over death, hell and the grave.  Sickness, sin and separation from God would be dealt with.  Jesus did all this because He knew there was no other way for mankind to come back to God.  Jesus knew what was at stake.  I often ask myself the question, "Do I really know what is at stake."  Has the reality of Jesus death really hit home?  It is easy for us to get caught up in the daily affairs and grind of life.  We often forget in the busyness of life that there are many more important  things in life.  We forget the greatest thing in life is the salvation of souls.  Jesus did not die so we would sit on our salvation and enjoy it for ourselves.  He died so that we would tell others.  Here are of couple of statistics to think about.  Only one in ten will ever tell someone about the Lord Jesus Christ.  It will take the average Christian, 29 years to bring a friend to church, 100% of evangelism is done by 5% of the people in the church.  Alarming when you think that in the greater Edmonton area there are 2 million people and only about 100,000 are Christians.  We have a huge mission field and one day we will have to stand before the Lord and give an account of our evangelism efforts.  Many will hang their heads in shame and try to tell the Lord, they were to busy with life to tell their neighbors.  The other tragedy is that when our neighbors stand before the Lord, they will look at us and say, "If you knew about this and what I was facing, why did you not tell me?"  To which we will hang our heads in shame and have no answer.  Do not let this be your testimony.  Tell someone today.