Through The Bible in a Year - April 2, 2026

“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 53:6

Bill Buckner. 1986 World Series. Game 6. The Red Sox are one out away from victory. A weak ground ball rolls toward first base. An injured and hobbling Buckner moves to field it. The ball goes between his legs. The winning run scores. The Mets win.

For the rest of his life, Buckner was booed, jeered, received death threats. Every sports channel replayed and replayed the error. One error, an error anyone could have made and he was unlikely to make if healthy, defined a man’s life.

It was so unfair. He had hit .340 that season—his bat carried the Red Sox to the World Series. He had 2,700+ hits across 22 years. He was a multiple All-Star. And he was playing with a bum ankle in excruciating pain.

And here’s the eerie part: Days before the World Series, a reporter asked about the pressure. Buckner said: “The nightmares are that you’re going to let the winning run score on a ground ball between your legs. Those things happen, you know.”

Yes. We know.

Some of us – maybe all of us – can identify the error we can’t forget. That moment replaying endlessly in our minds. That failure that defines us more than all our successes combined. The thing other people won’t let go—or worse, the thing we won’t let go.

This is why we have Isaiah 53—written 700 years before Christ. So we won’t forget that, when we can’t let go of our errors, we have a God who won’t let go of us. He provided a way for our errors to be forgiven. The Lord laid on Jesus the spiritual errors that would otherwise define us. He bore our sins on his cross, and our sins no longer define us in the court of heaven.

Respond: What’s your error? What moment plays on repeat in your mind? What failure defines you more than it should—in others’ minds or your own? Today, know this: God has taken the blame off you. He sent Jesus to take the weight—the shame, the guilt, the memory—of that very error, and He promises to remember it no more.

Prayer: Lord, I have an error I can’t forget. A moment that replays endlessly. A failure that crushes me. I confess I’ve gone astray. I’ve turned to my own way. But You laid that iniquity on Jesus. Help me believe the weight is off. Help me let go because You haven’t let go of me. Thank You, In Jesus’s Name. Amen.