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Luke chapter 19, verse 41.

And when Jesus drew near and saw the city, he wept over it.

What a simple, short, significant verse, one of two times where we see Jesus weeping in the Gospels. I think John chapter 11,

verse 35, when Mary comes running out to Jesus, her brother Lazarus has died, presumably in part

because Jesus didn't make it there in time to help, and she's weeping. She falls at his feet weeping. Now Jesus knows what he is about to do.

He's about to raise Lazarus from the dead, but he sees Mary's tears and he weeps with her.

Jesus weeps with those who weep, with his children who weep. How powerful a picture is that? And then,

so now this time in Luke chapter 19, verse 41, Jesus is weeping, but it's not weeping with people

who are hurting. It's weeping over a city full of people who is rejecting him, who in the days to come

will crucify him. and Jesus is weeping

over them. What a powerful picture. Like it's one thing to weep with Mary and Martha over the

death of Lazarus. These are his close friends that he spent time with. Now he's weeping over the people who are going to kill him.

We're going to crucify him in the most cruel form of murder they could imagine.

He's weeping over them because he longs for them to know his father's love.

That's why he's going to the cross because he loves them. And so he weeps over their

souls, over their rejection of him. And so I would just ask, like, when was the last time you or I

wept over people who either, one, do not know Jesus, like weeping over

those who are lost, or two, to take it a step further, weeping over those who are lost,

and maybe who are your enemies, maybe who oppose you, maybe who would

want to hurt you. Like that's the level here of weeping. So God, we pray, make our hearts more

like Jesus. Make my heart, I pray more like Jesus. I pray that over every single

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