A description of Jesus riding on a donkey into the city of Jerusalem is one the people would have understood to mean that He was accepting the position of a king but He was not!
He put His head in His hands and cried.
This city, a place where people lived close together, would be destroyed and He knew it would and that is why He cried. Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD after Jesus was crucified by them at the request of the Jews.
‘ The Jewish nation was a symbol of the people of all ages who scorn the pleading of Infinite Love. The tears of Jesus when He wept over Jerusalem were for the sins of all time. In the judgements pronounced upon Israel, those who reject the reprimands and warnings of the Holy Spirit may read their own condemnation.’ E.G. W
This post has three photographs of places where people live and what the plants where they are growing. Each photograph will have a quote about home and the word wept.
‘The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.’
Confucius
‘ Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.’
Golda Meir
‘ He is happiest, be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home.’
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
‘ We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.’
Alexander Smith
‘ A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.’
Benjamin Franklin
‘We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.’
Walter Scott
And here is a town that has planted large areas of some of the best honey smelling flowers I have experienced. I wish smell could be sent in a post.
Take care,
Sandy 🙂