The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Monday, April 14, 2025

Theme: "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ."

Text: Luke 19:41-44

41. As Jesus drew near the city, he wept over it and said, 42. If you had known, at least in this day, the things that belong to your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43. The days will come upon you when your enemies will cast trenches around you, shut you in, and hemmed you in on every side. 44. They will destroy you and your children within you, and will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.

Let us remember:

On the road to death, as he approached Jerusalem, Jesus, seeing it, wept over it. Tears speak, and Jesus' tears also had an explanation. The message conveyed by these tears is clearer than the words he spoke while weeping. These tears reveal both the Savior's tender compassion, his love for his people upon whom he saw ruin coming, and the certainty of God's judgments because of their hardening. Jesus felt the death of an entire civilization represented by this ancient city. He saw a city in which peace was dying. A city blinded by evil, and therefore its eyes were dying. Everything was hidden, and nothing that had been revealed was accessible to his understanding. Jesus was wounded in his flesh. Despite the life Jesus spread during his passage, Jerusalem remained blind, insensitive, without peace. Because of this hardening shown to the Savior of humanity, He would come upon the city on days when its enemies would surround it with trenches, enclose it, and press it in on all sides. They would destroy it, along with its children, and they would not leave a stone upon a stone, because it did not recognize the time of its visitation. Jesus wept over Jerusalem because of their rejection despite His love. They did not understand that Jesus was the Messiah and the Son of God. Likewise, if we do not emerge from our blindness, the destruction that Jesus had foretold will also strike us. Have a wonderful Monday. Amen.

Alain Louz.-