I love acronyms. They help me remember things and I need all the help I can get. Oftentimes I will use acronyms in a sermon and this last Good Friday was no exception. I made an acronym of Isaiah 53 to use as a part of my message. So here is the acronym.
Isaiah 53:1 What is God’s Message? What is God’s Strength?
Isaiah 53:2 John Doe looks
Isaiah 53:3 Eyes with tears
Isaiah 53:4 Sack with sorrows
Isaiah 53:5 Under the whip
Isaiah 53:6 Suitcase with sins
Isaiah 53:7 Closed mouth
Isaiah 53:8 Hanging dead
Isaiah 53:9 RIP the grave
Isaiah 53:10 In My Plan
Isaiah 53:11 Satisfied Righteousness
Isaiah 53:12 To pay for our sins
So what acronym will you make of a Scripture? Maybe it will help you and others remember the Scripture better.
Isaiah 53
1Who has believed our message?
To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm?
2 My servant grew up in the LORD's presence John Doe looks
like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected-- a man of sorrows, Eyes with tears
acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down. Sack with sorrows
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God's paths to follow our own.
Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all. Suitcase with sins
7 He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
8 Unjustly condemned, he was led away.
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream. Hanging dead
But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people.
9 He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal;
he was put in a rich man's grave.
10 But it was the LORD's good plan
to crush him and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
he will have many descendants.
He will enjoy a long life,
and the LORD's good plan will prosper in his hands.
11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,
he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
for he will bear all their sins.
12 I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier,
because he exposed himself to death.
He was counted among the rebels.
He bore the sins of many
and interceded for rebels.
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