HE WEPT

By Rick Mathes

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it.

Luke 19:41

Tears wash the soul. If a rough and tough Jewish carpenter can cry so can I. I didn’t need to prove my manhood I want to have a good cry I’m going to!

My mom died at a young age and I remember the funeral well. My grandmother was right off the boat from Serbia and my mom was the baby of the five surviving children. Well, Baba Stana (Grama Stella) was well in her 80s and in a wheel chair crying in an Eastern wail. It was bone chilling and very pitiful to hear this unique undulating cry of mourning. Such was the case with our Lord.

I didn’t want to even begin to think of what He was going though His mind as He looked to His precious Jerusalem into the future and saw the persecution and sin He was to suffer right down to this day as you read this. The sin of Jerusalem was no worse that the sin you committed today.

This sin crumbled Jerusalem to pebbles within 40 years of our Lord’s death. His holy city has been at war ever since with no let up. So it is in your life when you refuse to love the Savior more than the sin. This is cause for a moral degradation; a sewer of sin.

There is that temporal punishment where people, places and things are marred, distorted or even destroyed. The ages of time have proved that this consequence of sin has no effect on the needed reform of families and ultimately civilizations. There is no rest in Satan’s kingdoms of war and brutal carnage of all that gets into his camp.

Eternal punishment for the unrepentant unbelievers is not death but dying on the skewer in the devil’s barbeque. When the devil invites you for dinner, you are it!

A cannibal will keep his prey in sight and on friendly terms until his appetite overcomes him!

Did you know that a wolf caught in a bear trap will chew off his leg to get free? Did you know that a wolf wets the neck of the lamb before he sinks his teeth into it?

If you are unwilling to be saved, I want you to listen very carefully for the wailing cry of the Lord for you, a lost lamb that refuses to answer the shepherds call to salvation. Satan won?