“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! See, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”” (Matthew 23:37-39 ESV)
Do you ever read this and wonder how people could not have known who Jesus was? With everything He was doing, healing the sick, healing the lame, giving the blond sight, and setting chives free, how could they not get it?
But look around at us today and see how as the body of Christ we are divided, and do not agree. Jesus came to show the church, the body of Christ, the people of God how to live a better way. A way that was not like what they had known. It was not a new way for God, but our humanness got in the way of us seeming and understanding what God had set up for us to do. Jesus did something different from what the religious systems of the day setup and was doing. Today we also can think there is not a new revelation and that we have seen it all. God has shown us the new way and that won’t change… However the factor of our humanness is still there and we are still messing things up.
If Jesus came back today and said that he wanted to gather us under His wings would we want to be gathered? Are we ready to give up our religious systems to follow where Jesus is taking us? The only thing that truly matter is Christ and Christ crucified. The religious system is our way to understand that and help us live that life… Are you ready to give up anything that gets in the way of Jesus and be gathered under His wings?
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