10 Days to Passover: Day 6

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Point for Meditation: Luke 19:42-44 - “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace… [but] you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” Pay attention to God’s coming to you. Listen to His still, small voice. Take His opportunity for a life of peace.

When Jesus comes into Jerusalem from Bethany the day after having His feet and head anointed by Mary, the crowds gather and celebrate Him. John 12:12-16 tells the story succinctly, but Luke 19:29-44 has more detail:

And it came to pass, when He came near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet, that He sent two of His disciples, 30saying, “Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. 31“And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’”

32So those who were sent went their way and found it just as He had said to them. 33But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?” 34And they said, “The Lord has need of him.” 35Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. 36And as He went, many spread their clothes on the road. 37Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, 38saying:” ‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

39And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” 40But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”

41Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Jesus’ weeping here is a foreshadowing of 70 A.D., when the army of Rome surrounded Jerusalem and sacked the city. He wept that they did not know what would bring them peace—and why didn’t they know? Because they did not recognize the time of God’s coming to them. As the New Living Translation puts it, “because you have rejected the opportunity God offered you.”

Do we recognize God’s coming to us? Do we hear His still, small voice in the midst of the whirlwind of life? Do we understand the depth and meaning of the peace that only God can give us through Christ living in us? Do we take the opportunity God offers us to live a life of peace through His Holy Spirit?

Today’s Point for Meditation: Luke 19:42-44 - “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace… [but] you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” Pay attention to God’s coming to you. Listen to His still, small voice. Take His opportunity for a life of peace.