"If You Had Known"

Luke 19: 41-44

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

⁴¹ Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, “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. ⁴³ For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, ⁴⁴ and 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.”

The days, months and years seem to fly by faster, the older we get, and so often we miss the point of why we are here, and how we can best use the time God has allotted to us.  The tears of Jesus are a call to us to "wake up", know and practice "the things that make for your peace". But we focus our attention on the passing and the paltry, rather than on "the things that matter." We surrender to an enemy who beguiles us with the promise of prosperity and happiness, only to find ourselves shortchanged in the end.  What in my life is causing Jesus to weep? There is still time to change what needs to be changed and with his help we can do it. Just ask and it will be done.

Bro. Rene