He Died For ALL Our Sins

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isa 53:6). Somehow our going our own way is a source of iniquity. We sin against God when we go our own way, when we go astray. A sheep was to stay on the trail or in the meadow the shepherd led them on or into. A sheep would see something that looked appealing to its eyes and wander towards that thing. A greener spot, a less rocky path, whatever the item the sheep would go there against the shepherd’s desire.

We see a bigger house, a better spouse, a more comfortable position and decide that is where we will go. However those actions are against God the Father’s will. He has another plan for us, one explicitly in His word, or communicated to us through the Holy Spirit for our particular life calling, or even in the prompting of the Holy Spirit to call someone. However, we turn to our own way, and iniquity is born. When iniquity is born someone must bear it.

This is why Jesus suffered and died on the Cross this Good Friday, because God the Father “laid on Him the iniquities of us all.” Iniquities are created when we go our own way in the big and the small. When we measure the big sins in our eyes, adultery, idolatry, coveting, the punishment Jesus bore for us is humbling and grieves us. When we realize Jesus also had to die for the little sins in our eyes, not calling someone we were supposed to, walking on in a hurry when we were supposed to sit for a “chance” meeting with someone God had planned for us, our grief and shame is all the more magnified. Jesus had to die for my lusting after another woman, and He had to die because I was too busy to make a phone call. He had to die for all my sins.