The Purification of Love

Love only reveals itself truly as love when it suffers, he says. We don't want to suffer in order to maintain our relationship with God; we have a tendency towards comfort, pleasure, etc. Isaiah prophesies a new David who's going to embrace the suffering that was avoided by Adam and other leaders of God's people through salvation history. He is going to be like Isaac, the son of Abraham who willingly laid himself down in the altar and became not just priests, but also victim in that priestly act.