Good Morning Friends,
"As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, 'If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace -- but now it is hidden from your eyes.'" (Luke 19:41-42)
Jesus expressed a similar sentiment about the people of Jerusalem a little earlier in His life, recorded in Matthew's Gospel, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing." (Matthew 23:37)
The Jews, His own people, largely rejected Jesus. That's especially true of the people of Jerusalem, the educated, religious leaders of His day. They saw what He did and could not explain it. They heard what He taught and could not refute it. But they could not believe because to believe would be to leave behind all that they had given their lives to. That would have cost too much, they enjoyed their lives too much to see them so radically changed.
It is so easy to get caught up in doing life the way we've always done life and miss what God is saying and doing around us and wants to do in us. Life gets comfortable, and even if it isn't so comfortable, it's still easier to keep walking the same familiar road than to make a u-turn and take a new path.
I don't ever want to become so deaf that I fail to hear God's voice, so blind that I fail to see the new places He wants to take me.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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