“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Reflection

Human history is a long story of sickness—a deep, internal fracturing that separates us from the source of life. We try to patch the wounds ourselves, but the infection of death runs too deep. This is why God entered our condition. He did not come to demand a payment or to balance a ledger; He came as a physician to take the disease into His own body. On the cross, Christ absorbed the full weight of our violence, our bitterness, and our decay. He allowed our brokenness to strike Him so that His life-giving blood could become our medicine. He was not punished to appease an angry deity; He was wounded to dismantle death from the inside out. By entering our suffering, He transforms our scars into places of restoration. Reach out to Him today; let His healing life begin its work in you.