In Luke 13:31-35 we find Pharisees coming to Jesus to warn him that Herod has plans to kill him. At that point Jesus laments over Jerusalem. The very people he has come to rescue are determined to, and eventually will, kill him.
What strikes me this morning is that Jesus had every reason to abandon us as humanity. We turned against God over and over again throughout history. Then God himself came down - born as man - Jesus. And while on earth was followed by some, but abandoned by most and ridiculed, beaten, tortured and horribly executed in the end. Well, not in the end because that was not the end.
Why did he keep going? Why didn't he give up? Why didn't he quit?
He didn't because "God is love." (1 John 4:16). "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16).
Amazing love! How can it be? That you my King would die for me?
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