Navigating Grief After Losing My Father
November 20, 2024
Friday November 22nd: The heart, a house of prayer
November 22, 2024
“… because you did not recognise the time of your visitation from God.”
Luke 19: 41-44
The people were jubilant, but Jesus shed tears. God cried. The people would have heard about Jesus and all his good deeds. Yet they didn’t “recognise” him, – the one who would make atonement for our sins.
Jesus wept because the people did not see him as the way to peace. What about us? We may be looking to the government to create peace in our crime-ridden situation. That is all well and good, but we need to each make peace with God so that we can share that peace with others. Sin is an enemy that encircles and hems us in.
We need the Holy Spirit to bring us to repent. Jesus weeps when we don’t. When we do not repent, like Jerusalem, we may suffer spiritual destruction because we failed to recognise our hour of visitation. Jesus comes to visit us in the poor and marginalised. We can be like Jesus for others.
Lord, take the blindness from our eyes and make us “recognise” you in all our everyday circumstances.
