| “The Man of Sorrows” Isaiah 53:1-6 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. NIV |

| I give thanks; To my precious Friend and Savior, Jesus Christ. For His great love and compassion to me. His death on the cross at Calvary, that I may receive the precious gift of eternal life. For giving me new hope and a reason to live, so that every note I play, every breath I take, may be for Him. C.W.F. |