3/8 Quiet Time (Luke 19:41-48 ESV)

41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” 45 And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, meaning His mind is still on the Israelites, instead of on His upcoming painful death on the cross. Jesus doesn't cry very much during His ministry, meaning His tears mean a lot. He is very upset that the Israelites don't consider God at all, making His house a "den of robbers." Jesus continues to teach because He wants these people to be in the right track.

 

If Jesus came to my workplace, church, or into my personal space, how would He react? What would He say to me? 

I don't have anything to say to Jesus. I'm just doing what I'm supposed to be doing daily and I fall to sin every day. Have mercy on me because I'm a sinner, Lord. All I can do is to pray that I can bear fruits and to have hope in You.