Be Encouraged - Isaiah 53 - Part 1

My goal in the recent insights has been to impress two things upon you. First, how close God is to the brokenhearted. Second, because Jesus is a man of sorrows, pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, He understands and identifies with our pain.
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After writing the previous insights based on Isaiah 53:2-3, I decided to read the rest of the chapter. I was so deeply moved by how verse after verse repeats these two ideas that I decided to share this chapter in two parts without any explanation. Read and reread to fully understand the God who wants to walk the trauma-recovery road and heal you. 
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Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he [Christ Jesus} grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:1-6