Isaiah 53: 2  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. 3  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. 4  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! 5  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. 6  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. 7  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. 8  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. 9 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. 10  But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief.

I don't often read about or even think about what Jesus life was really like... 

instead I think about how great He was... about the miracles.. about the crowds following Him and loving Him... and about Him bringing salvation to the world... 

I don't often recognize that His entire life was given for me.. I have often looked at it as though it was only the last few months of His life that He was mistreated and unloved... but I wonder.. was it His entire life? was He rejected and abused and treated badly throughout His life for me? 

He gave up all dreams and desires that He had so that I could be saved.. when I read that He died with no descendants... I was struck... He chose to give up the idea of love and family that I might be saved this 2,000+ years later... now that is really a living sacrifice... 

what is it God is calling you to sacrifice for His glory and His plan so that you too can be used to save lives? and are you willing to give up what you want and desire to acheive His plan above your own?