Weep For Yourselves

"But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?”(Luke 23:28-31)
On Jesus' climb to Calvary, He stops and shares these words with the multitude, and women who were crying for Him. In His moment of terror, and anguish, these words indicate that Jesus did not want the people to be concerned with Him, but with themselves. Here He prophesies what will happen to them, when Jerusalem is destroyed by the Romans. It was, a terrible event. But there is a message for us here, that should grip us, and those who we witness to, on behalf of Christ. The crucifixion was the most terrible event in human history. We call it "Good Friday" but there was nothing good about it. It was our sins that put Jesus on the cross. It was our disobedience to the will of God, that required a blood sacrifice, to be made, on our behalf, once and for all. We can weep for Jesus this day. But what He would have us do, is weep for ourselves, and repent of our sins, and claim the victory He brought about, through His death and resurrection. And for those who do not claim Jesus as Savior, and allow Him to cleanse them of their sins; like the destruction of Jerusalem, judgment is coming!
GP Photo by David Castillo Dominici. Published on 04 September 2012 www.freedigitalphotos.net