Lent Meditation Day 16
As we read further in Luke, we find the passage that tells of Jesus’ response when he saw the city of Jerusalem from the back of the colt.
A Note from Ruth
These meditations are a reflection of my personal journey through Lent at a time when I was experiencing deep spiritual growth and learning what it means to grow in community as a student at the Academy for Formation and Mission. In part, I wrote them to process my own thoughts, but mainly to share those contemplations, because I felt they were meant to be experienced by others. My hope was to encourage others to go deep, to see God and Lent with a new perspective, and to self-reflect in a way that brings hope.
“As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it” (Luke 19:41).
Jesus was heartbroken that the City of David did not “recognize the time of (their) visitation from God” (19:44). Because they did not believe in Jesus as the Messiah, peace would escape them.
Can you hear the call in this?
I believe that God is with us all the time, and in us, and in creation. I also know that there are times when God comes to me in a profound way, in a way that overwhelms me.
It has happened to me while driving on one of those days when the sky is a beautiful blue and the clouds are big and look as though you could reach out and touch them if your arms could stretch that far.
I sometimes feel God near when I am lying in bed at night and almost, but not quiet, asleep.
Usually when I feel God in this profound way, God has something to say to me.
“I am here.”
“I will always be here.”
“I can help you.”
I need to do my part in these moments, which is to listen, and to believe. I need to welcome Jesus into my life, and to notice when he arrives. I need to lift my eyes to the horizon of the soul and see him coming.