Popular songs of our generation encourage and reflect the pursuit of one’s own way.  “Go ahead with your own life but leave me alone.”  “I take my chances every chance I get.”  “I did it my way.” There are hundreds of ways this idea has been expressed in modern prose, poetry and art.  A prophet named Isaiah also wrote about this idea.  2700 years ago he wrote, “All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned, every one, to his own way…”  Of course “our own way” is portrayed today as bold, brave and novel.  As if no one has ever “gone their own way” before.  The truth is, the mess we are in as human beings started when Adam and Eve went their own way.  Because they are our parents and we are under the curse, our default setting is “to go our own way.”  There’s nothing cool, surprising or brave about that—it’s what we do.  Isaiah went on to write something else in that verse, “And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”  It is because we went our own way that the Son of God suffered and died.  He took the penalty for our own way upon Himself and has made a way to get back on the path to life.  If you want to swim upstream, don’t go your own way.  If you want to live radical and contrary to the mainstream, join Jesus!  His way is narrow but it leads to life.  Most of the world is on the broad road that leads to destruction…I see nothing cool about that.  Isaiah 53 was the central text in the explanation of life to the Ethiopian eunuch.  We hope to consider it more fully on Sunday