Knowing Him Daily

28.July.2026

Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows… by His stripes we are healed. ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭4‬-‭5‬

Yesterday we saw what it cost Him to look the way He looked, marred beyond recognition, bearing something that had never touched Him before. Today we look at what that suffering purchased.

Isaiah doesn’t leave healing as a vague or general idea tucked inside redemption somewhere. He named it directly. He bore our griefs. He carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, and by His stripes, the actual wounds laid on His body, we are healed. Not we might be healed if the timing and faith and circumstances all line up. We are healed. Already accomplished, the same way “it is finished” was already spoken before anyone’s specific need had been addressed.

Centuries later, Peter writes about the same wounds to a church still learning what they meant.

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed. ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭24‬

Past tense, not a promise waiting to be activated by enough faith or enough asking. A purchase already completed, that Peter wrote about and everyone reading it.

This is where so many of us were taught something lesser than what’s actually true. We were taught to treat healing like a special request, something we petition for on a case by case basis, hoping this time it qualifies, hoping we’ve done enough or believed enough or prayed long enough to earn what someone else seemed to receive. But healing was never a case-by-case favor. It was bought in the same purchase as your forgiveness, on the same day, by the same stripes. You don’t stand in a different line for it. It’s already inside you and what you already possess. Consider that. It’s like having money in the bank and never withdrawing it. None of us can imagine that in a day of check books ATMs, and debit cards.

That doesn’t mean every question about sickness and timing gets neatly resolved in one reading. There’s real tension in living faith in a body when our mind is still being renewed. But the starting point matters. You’re not negotiating for something uncertain. You’re standing on something that is already settled, the same stripes, the same finished work.

If you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, you can do that right now. Pray this with me:

Dear Heavenly Father, I confess that I have sinned, and I believe Jesus died for my sins and rose again on the third day. I ask Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.