Radically Happy

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Bringing God’s Kingdom
• Everywhere I go
• So can I leave it
• With everyone I meet

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from Whipped

I am… tried.

The people of the city
Put me on trail

They remember me
Escaping their prison

They recognize me
As part of a hated tribe.

I cannot speak their language
But it does not matter
For I have nothing to say
In my defense

Though I am innocent in Spirit
I am guilty by letter of Law

And anyway
This is why I came

I look for Jesus.

I see myself
In Him

As I am judged
Condemned
Vilified
Made a spectacle

I see their pain.

All the fear
Anger
Frustration
Tension

The city never felt
But kept bottled inside
Is unleashed upon me

I am beaten
Whipped
Stripped
Crucified

It is agony.

Shame
Humiliation
Torture
Dying

It is intimacy.

To know
Everything they do
To me
They first did
To Jesus

Everything I feel
He felt first
And feels now
With me

I cry out.

“Father
Forgive me
I didn’t know
What You were doing”

Then I die.

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Content
• Destroyed
• Ruined
• Maligned
• Close to Jesus
• Felt

Scripture

“He was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared, he took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off— and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people.
They buried him with the wicked, threw him in a grave with a rich man, Even though he’d never hurt a soul or said one word that wasn’t true.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭7‬-‭9‬ ‭MSG‬‬