Acorns from Oakes

It occurred to me that…there was finally the first Christian who opened that book and read, “He was a tender shoot that grew out of dry ground.” There was a scripture that came alive for the first time to one person, and when they saw, “He was led as a lamb to the slaughter” – nowhere in the margins of the scrolls had there been a picture of Calvary painted – but there was the first Christian for the first time who looked at Isaiah 53, and dropped it and threw up their hands and said, “Oh, my God!” And they rushed to the church and they said, “Pick up your book!” and read Isaiah 53. And for the first time, in a prophetic community, the scripture was brought clear in the light of Calvary.