​Thoughts for You

The following notes describe what we have been thinking regarding the Christian walk. 
​These all relate to Jesus' final week before the crucifixion.  We hope they will help you on your own spiritual journey.

"The Stones Would Cry Out"

How tremendously significant this seemingly haphazard event! Jesus rides a donkey into Jerusalem and people begin spontaneously to shout “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord...”  The Pharisees cry out “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”  Jesus responds, “If these should keep silent, the stones would cry out.”

You see, this was not haphazard at all!  In the words of the prophet Zechariah, “Behold your king is coming unto you, lowly and riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”  The King has come to His own and His own would not receive Him.  My friend, let this never be said of you, that Christ came to be King of your life and you would not receive Him.  “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.”

​The time is now

Strange, isn’t it?  Here is Jesus riding into Jerusalem -- what we call the Triumphal Entry.  People are shouting hosanna. But Jesus is in tears. Why?  It’s because instead of the beauty of the city and the glory of the temple, He saw devastation and ruin. “Your enemies will surround you...and level you and your children within you to the ground...and will not leave one stone upon another.”  Why?  “Because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Dear friend, opportunities do not last forever.  How long has Jesus been knocking at your door?  The time of your visitation is now.  Don’t let it pass.

We no longer regard no one according to the flesh

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore, from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.
2 Cor. 5: 11, 14-15
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Now is the time
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Salvation is available to all who admit they are spiritually bankrupted. Jesus Christ the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. You may recall, the prodigal son, was in rough and unthinkable predicament; and then he came to his senses. He cried to God for help, confessed sins. You must call out to Him; Lord Jesus be merciful to me the sinner. For anyone who calls out to Him will not be rejected. 
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