Salvation 2025 | Day 2
“…They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me. They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.”
Psalms 22:16-18 NKJV
It was unheard of and perhaps sounded impossible that the chosen One would go through a lot of suffering to fulfil His mandate. Yet that was the narrative of the prophecies about the Messiah. He came to suffer our chastisement, pain, and death as the sacrifice of One for all. He was God’s own prepared sacrificial Lamb (Isaiah 53:4-6).
Long before the Romans introduced the capital punishment of crucifixion, the psalmist had already prophesied about the piercing of hands and feet. The Torah had declared a curse upon anyone who hangs on a tree. These prophetic statements were not mere poetic images. They were precise details pointing to God’s intentional plan to redeem humanity through suffering. Jesus’ arrest, stripes, humiliation, betrayal, disgrace, and crucifixion were not accidents of history. They were the fulfilment of God’s promise and the embodiment of divine love poured out for the salvation of the world.
This fulfilled prophecy also speaks directly to our personal experiences. It reminds us that God is not distant from our pain. He entered into it fully. Jesus endured every form of suffering a human could face. He was born into controversy, targeted for death as a baby, betrayed by His closest friends, rejected by His own people, and publicly executed in shame. He died a criminal’s death, stripped of dignity and covered in wounds that went beyond the physical. His agony was real. His suffering was complete. Even His face was disfigured beyond recognition.
Wherever you find yourself, whether in rejection, betrayal, pain, loneliness, or despair, Christ has already walked that road. He suffered not only to fulfill prophecy but to stand with us in our darkest moments. He chose to enter fully into the brokenness of humanity so He could be our way out. The cross is both a historical event and a personal invitation. In Christ’s suffering, we find the depths of God’s compassion and the assurance that we are never alone.
Further Reading: Deut 21:23, Isa 52:13-15, 53, Matt 16:21, Luke 23:33-46, Gal 3:13
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