Missing the Divine
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. |
| 0:06.8 | Isaiah 53. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.2 | Missing the Divine was written by Tim Gustafson and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:22.3 | Isaiah chapter 53 verses 1 through 6. |
| 0:26.6 | Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? |
| 0:32.2 | He grew up before him like a tender chute and like a root out of dry ground. |
| 0:40.7 | He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him. |
| 0:47.4 | Nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, |
| 0:57.3 | a man of suffering and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, |
| 1:05.7 | stricken by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. |
| 1:14.7 | The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. |
| 1:22.0 | We all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the |
| 1:29.4 | iniquity of us all. Missing the Divine, written by Tim Gustafson. Most people avoided George Chase. |
| 1:40.8 | He lived in a 12-foot-square shack in the woods, where New England's |
| 1:44.6 | Pawkatuck River meets Little Narragansett Bay. To the locals, it was obvious George didn't have a bathtub. |
| 1:51.7 | They could smell the evidence. One day, a hurricane brought the Atlantic Ocean rushing over the |
| 1:57.7 | sea coast, washing away the beachfront with its attractive homes. |
| 2:02.2 | Survivors pulled themselves from the bay and began searching for refuge. |
| 2:06.8 | Eleven of them, soaked and shivering, found it in Georgia's cabin. |
| 2:12.1 | He gave them everything he had, water, milk, ginger tea, and shelter. |
| 2:22.4 | After the hurricane of 1938, the townsfolk had a far different opinion of George Chase. It's sad when we make superficial judgments about others, |
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