Day 22 - Luke 13: 34-35 -- SH
“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, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
We
often speak of "God's wrath" concerning those who reject him, and
easily overlook a deeper reality that lives in his heart: profound
motherly sorrow that longs, even aches, for her children to embrace the
offer to come home to the place of protection.
Did you notice how Jesus' lament here anticipates both Palm Sunday and Good Friday?
But even as he anticipates his death, his heart is not shaped by fear or anger or blame.
Just deep, groaning sadness. "Amazing love, how can it be, that you my Lord should die for me."
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