Daily Worship

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem

Jane Denniston April 14, 2014 0 0

Luke 19: 41-44

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. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognise the time of God’s coming to you.’

Jesus,
I see you weeping.
The tears spill from your lashes
and glint in the sunlight.
There is pain in your gaze
and wounds in your countenance.
I never thought to see you weep
and it disquiets me.

Why do you weep?
Are you not powerful to change things?
Can you not gather under your wings
the lost and the lonely?
The broken and the barricaded?
The harmed and the hurting?
Can you not soothe their pain
and smooth their way?
Can you not ease their path
and cease their strain?
Jesus,
why do you weep?

Jesus,
I see you weeping.
And I know that you are waiting
for the maimed and the mutilated
the disconnected and the detached
to recognise
that you are their hope.
That until they come to you freely
they cannot come to you at all.

Jesus,
I see you weeping.
And in each tear
there is a world of care.
Do you weep for me?

 

 

by David and Jane Denniston