An Undeserved Inheritance

These economic times spare no one the anxiety of tomorrow. Layoffs, fraudulent investments, poverty, and greed all blend together to cause ample reasons for concern.

But I’m not afraid. I have peace about what tomorrow may bring. Why? Because over 2,000 years ago a man paid an immeasurable price so that I would have an inheritance that supplies me with more than I could ever ask for or imagine. That’s why today is a holiday for me. It’s a somber holiday because the price of my undeserved inheritance was the blood of Jesus Christ who was in very nature God yet became man and became obedient to death – even death on a cross. In honor of Him who died that I might have an abundant inheritance, here are two photographs alongside Isaiah 53 in remembrance of the meaning behind Good Friday.

In remembrance of My Savior…

³ 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.

⁴ Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

⁵ 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.

⁶ 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.

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.

⁹ He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to  suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

- Isaiah 53:3-10

Photographs by Katie Telschow & Photoshop texture by NinianLif.