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Today is Palm Sunday! On this day our Lord Jesus was taking his last trip to Jerusalem shortly before he was crucified. As he rode into the city, there was loud shouting and celebration. People lay palm branches on the roads and shouted ‘Hosanna.’ 

Luke 19:41-44 

^41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it ^42 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. 

^44…..because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” 

As much as there was celebration, his heart was grieving. Jesus looked at this city that lay before him and wept over Jerusalem. God had been in their midst and they did not acknowledge him.  

The Jews knew of his coming. It was prophesied in their Scriptures for centuries. They knew that the Seed of a woman would come and would bruise the serpent’s head. They knew their Saviour would be a descendant of David, that he would be born in Bethlehem, that he would be a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, but he would be the Wonderful Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace. They knew that a virgin would conceive and bear a son and that he would be Immanuel, God with us. 

And Jesus came, just as it was said of him. No one was ever born like him, and no one lived like him, and no one taught like him, and no one loved like him to the point of giving His life as a ransom for the sins of the whole world. Nobody could save us from our sins – except Jesus. The blood he shed on Calvary is the ONLY solution for our sins. 

Now the Lord was among them but the people rejected him. Jesus wept "because you did not know the time of your visitation." 

Luke 13:34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

The Lord continues to speak and reveal himself to people everywhere. He sends his pastors, his evangelists, his prophets, his men and women to speak his Word to you. Are you willing to listen to him? 

Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden up your hearts (Heb. 3:15). He loves you and longs to save you from your sins. He longs to make you his own.

Jesus said, “Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me” (Rev. 3:20).

Will you open the door of your heart and allow Jesus to come in? He will bring peace to your life.

“God has made us for himself,

and our hearts are restless

until they find their rest in him.”

- St. Augustine