Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Isaiah chapter 53 verse six.

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the

Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. This is right in the middle of a prophecy about

Jesus about how Jesus would come and he would be pierced for our transgressions he would be crushed

for our inequities how he would pay the price of sin that we deserve. When you get

to verse six starts talking about us and the Bible describes us as sheep that have gone astray

They've turned aside to our own way this describes the sinfulness of our hearts every one of us, it looks different in all of our lives,

but we all have turned aside from God's way to our own ways.

And we are continually prone to do that even when we have trusted

in the forgiveness that God gives. We're still prone to do that even when we have trusted in the forgiveness that God gives.

We're still prone to turn aside from God's way to our own ways.

So there's a lot of teachers and even preachers today who would tell us we should believe in ourselves we should have

confidence in ourselves we should be proud of ourselves but that's not what the

Bible is saying here the Bible is saying you're like a foolish sheep You think you know what you're doing, but you are clueless. You are so

prone to wander. Just like sheep. You look at sheep in the world. I've never been a sheepher myself, but reading

about them, seeing them. Like sheep are not the smartest of animals. They're prone to wander all

the time, wander off aimlessly. They have no defense mechanisms when they're in

danger. Their only possibility is to run from that which is endangering them but

they're slow.

Sheep are not smart animals. They're prone to water and that's the picture

God and His word is giving us of ourselves all of us. So not just some of us, don't think that any one of us is excluded here, all of us are like sheep who've gone astray.

...