On my heart...

The YouVersion iphone app has a verse of the day. I usually open it at some point during my day, read the verse, and go on. Sometimes I'll read more of the passage...what is written before and after. Today's verse really struck me. The only thing visible on the screen were the first couple lines. Then I kept reading. It's nothing that I've never read or never heard before. But today, it hit me so hard.

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!

He took the punishment, and that made us whole.

    Through his bruises we get healed.

We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.

    We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.

And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong,

    on him.

Isaiah 53:3-6, the Message 

I am so unworthy of this kind of love. When I read those words, I picture so much sadness on Jesus' face. Can you imagine someone disrespecting you, hating you so much, spitting on you, saying the worst words in the world to you? You SURELY wouldn't want to do anything nice for them. It would even be hard to simply forgive them. But Jesus did. He forgives. He is kind. He loves beyond any capacity our minds can understand. There is nothing sweeter.