JESUS SPEAKS TO THE WOMEN
LUKE 23:27-31
And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
QUESTIONS
What do you see? What stands out to you and why?
Even though this piece doesn’t show his face, imagine the expression on Jesus’ face. What is it like?
Imagine Jesus’ pain. How do you handle pain? Do you have the ability to have compassion on others when you are in pain?
PRAY
O Lord, forgive my unwillingness to repent - to confess all that I am before you. Help me go beyond the repentance mouthed in words of false-piety to sweep away all the facades of who I try so hard to be before others and recall who I really am inside. Help me to once again stand before God with a bare and open heart. Help me to not just repent in words but to put that repentance into action in everything I am and do. O Lord give me the gift of tears to weep for my own failures, for my sins, for the pain I bring to others, and to live the fruits of repentance.