He Opened Not His Mouth
"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.” — Isaiah 53:7
Jesus suffered for our sins, taking our punishment, and His heavenly Father sent Him to do it. We forget sometimes how God, out of His love for us, allowed His own Son to suffer, and then we complain when something is hard or inconvenient. The scripture continues, "he opened not his mouth." Despite everything that Jesus went through, He didn't complain. He didn’t blame God; He didn’t question God. At the very end, when His suffering was at its worst, He did cry out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34) He had to experience everything that we would ever experience, so in the end, He felt completely abandoned and forsaken. We don’t even know what suffering means compared to what Jesus went through for us. He took our sin upon Himself, and because of that, we are free. We have nothing to complain about. Instead, we should follow His lead.
