Luke 19: 35-36, 41-42 -- Syd H.
They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road...
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."
Put yourself in this scene: thousands of people are cheering boisterously as a rabbi plods toward Jerusalem on a colt. He comes over the top of a hill and sees the city spread out ahead of him. He stops. And then he buries his head in his hands and weeps loudly, so that his wails can be heard above the din of the crowd. What an intense moment!
On
the road to the cross we have the privilege of weeping with Jesus:
weeping over blindness, apathy, idolatry, oppression and injustice.
Weeping over all those things which -- on this Palm Sunday -- are about to be covered by the blood of the Lamb.
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