Paradox

Is.53:1-2 KJV For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected if men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our face from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not.

Not very many sermons on that aspect of Jesus’ life. Want to be like Christ? It doesn’t sound like he was very popular does it?

Know anyone like that? How many Christians are willing to match that description? If the Lord wanted to use you, and you had to be described in the same manner, would you still be willing?

God wants the glory. Not many mighty, not many noble are called. Those who know God are often the ones who have been pressed to that point.

I have a saying that “ we don’t pray like we need to, until we need to pray.”

Likewise the one who knows God, know Him because circumstances required him to rely on Him like never before. He was at the point where he had to rely on Him or he wouldn’t make it. In the Bible, oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. Oil is pressed out of the olives.

Are you willing to be pressed by your circumstances to the point where God can use you? You might be hated. You could be despised, and rejected of men. You could possibly be a person of sorrows and acquainted with grief. You would probably not be esteemed by your peers. If the Lord asked for volunteers to meet that description, how many hands would go up? Just a thought.