The rescue operation required total commitment: his life
Some thought he was a charismatic do-gooder. Others thought he was a guru with healing hands. His poetic stories are among the best in world literature. It was to take several years before the true reason for his mission became clear. He repeatedly hinted to his closest team members about the actual purpose of his mission. When he finally hung on a cross after a public show trial, his last words were “Mission accomplished”. His code word: L – o – v – e
He entered the stage of this world “under cover”. Very few people realized that this man would one day save billions of people. Yet the prophet Isaiah had already explained the core of his rescue mission in detail centuries earlier. The plans for the “mission impossible” had long been in the drawer.
“Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave. But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels. (Isaiah 53 – New Living Bible)
Diospi Suyana has sworn allegiance to the head of this suicide mission. One for all. All for one. For almost 20 years, we have wanted to carry out the mission he gave us. As back then, the code word is: L – o – v – e.
Best wishes for December 24, 2023 from Curahuasi, Peru! KDJ
