Tuesday, March 29, 2011

53. He Loved Us When We Didn't care

Isaiah 53:3


I feel sorry for Rebecca Black. Two weeks ago no one knew who she was. Now the whole world knows and pretty much everyone is making fun of her. She released “Friday” which is a video for a song that’s so bad, you can’t help but watch it. It’s like when someone says, “Oh man, this thing smells nasty... here, you smell it.” And you do! You can’t help it! The video has only been on YouTube a little over a month and already has over 64 million views. Thing is, of the 1.3 million people who have voted on the video, over 93% dislike it. What if you were the person everyone disliked? Not many people know this, but the Bible calls Jesus “The Man of Sorrows.” It says He was despised and rejected by people. It says that “we held Him in low esteem.” In other words, not only was Jesus disliked, He was basically ignored. When it comes down to it, people in general didn’t really care about Him. We’ve all been like this. We’ve all dissed Jesus. You may have heard this before, and you may even know in your heart that it’s true, but the next true thing may surprise you. You see, a lot of people think that because we have dissed Jesus, He is going to come down hard on us. We’ve been bad, so He’s coming to Judge, but that’s not really the whole story. The Bible actually says that even though we ignored and even hated Him, Jesus loves us and wants to know us. I love Jesus because He came here to give His life for us out of His unstoppable love, even though we dissed Him.

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