my overlooking

isaiah 53:3-5

He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!

i just had this thought. i mean, i’ve read/heard this passage more times than i could remember, but this other stuff connects, and this may be wrong, but just go with me for a second.

so, our sins were why HE suffered, why HE knew pain, why people would turn away, why we looked down on HIM, why we thought HE was scum.  it’s our fault and our sins that did that to HIM.  now fast forward into the new testament when JESUS tells us that what we do to the least of these, we are doing to HIM.

now track with me here, what if we saw people that were down and out.  people that we would look over, turn away from.  people that are suffering, that know pain first hand.  people that we think they are scum, whether or not we would ever actually say it.  what if we treated them as if our sins had done that to them, and we have the chance to serve them instead of over looking them.  maybe that would be what HE calls love.