Please read the passage before reading the comments.
The passage is about God’s servant. Usually in the Hebrew Scriptures, servant of the Lord refers to the people of Israel. In the Servant Songs of Isaiah, chapters 42-53, sometimes Servant of the Lord refers to the people, sometimes to a prophet, or to Cyrus the pagan king over the people of Israel, or some other mysterious individual.
When we read these passages with reference to the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ, we can apply them to him. The prophet who wrote these songs, however, would not have had Jesus in mind. The Christian writers who refer to the Servant Songs, however, provide insights into the person and message of Jesus through the image of the suffering servant.
If the Servant of the Lord can refer to Chrit, then it can also refer to us. We who have received baptism have been anointed into the person and work of Christ.
Just as God called the mysterious figure of the servant of the Lord at the time of Cyrus the Persian, so now has God called us to establish justice on the earth, to be a covenant of the people, to be a light for the nations to open the eyes of the blind and bring prisoners out of confinement, dungeons, and places of torture and death.
We are called to carry on the work of Jesus in our families, homes, communities, state, nation and world. This is our task as consecrated into Christ, and our work must go beyond political parties and personal ideologies. Let us be faithful to our call to be Christians and servant of the Lord.
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