It was all for me! - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53: 4.5.

It was all for me!
Reading the 53rd chapter of Isaiah's prophecy, I was suddenly touched by the message of the cross. For the fist time I realised that the cross is the central point of the gospel. I understood what Jesus did for me: He bore my sins and all that tormented me; He was laden with my wrongdoings, my guilt and my burden, so that I might walk before God as a free man. I began to value the price He had to pay. I became aware of what He gave to save me, a man enslaved by sin and lost. Delivering me cost Him so much!

The fact of this reality gripped me strongly. Contemplating the high price that Jesus paid for me brought a flood of tears to my eyes. I just could not stop the sobbing that came from the depths of my heart. The sight of Jesus with a crown of thorns on His head, hanging on a cross, kept coming into my mind.

"For me! For me!" Words failed me. Nothing could express my gratitude and the sense of my own unworthiness. I could not fathom such love. There He took my place. Knowledge that intelligence cannot grasp gripped my heart. All my life I had imagined that no-one could understand what I was suffering. Then I discovered that Jesus not only understood, but that He had met me by bearing it all Himself in order to deliver me.

Today‘s reading: Numbers 16: 1 - 24 · Matthew 11: 1 - 9