Perhaps one of my favorite songs ever....

Isaiah 53 has always been one of my favorite chapters...written some 700 years before Jesus was crucified for our sins, it describes the suffering and sacrifice of our Savior. A couple of months ago I first heard this song and literally had chills all over. Several times since then, I have heard it and been overwhelmed with the thought of Christ's wounds bringing healing, forgiveness, salvation to ME....to ME....selfish, mixed-up, prideful, sinful, fallen ME.

"Surely he took up our (MY) infirmities and carried away MY sorrows,
yet I considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for MY transgressions,
he was crushed for MY iniquities;
the punishment that brought ME peace was upon him,
and by his wounds I am healed"
from Isaiah 53:4-5