Isaiah 53:5

Christ Removes the Crushing Weight

From time to time we hear of people doing extraordinary things, like a woman who managed to lift a car that had slipped off the jack to free her son who was being crushed under the heavy weight. In extreme emergencies people have been known to tap a source of physical strength and mental resourcefulness they didn't know they had.

However, human strength and wit cannot accomplish every feat. They do not enable us to save ourselves or others from the power and the punishment of sin. Not by our power or resolve can we get out from under, or help free others, from the crushing guilt of sin.  

But what we can't do, our Lord Jesus did for us. He was crushed for our iniquities.  He bore the full weight of our sin and allowed it to crush him to death. He took the punishment we deserved. He freed us from sin’s overwhelming burden. Trusting in our Savior, we stand before God not scared and trapped under his judgment, but safe and free in the peace we have with our God through Jesus.