Luke 19:41-44
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."
What Makes Jesus Cry?
They missed their “time of visitation” – the moment that makes for “Peace”
Shalom: peace, prosperity, success, health, completeness, contentment, harmony
Not only lost Shalom, Lost the Future
Jer 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. NIV
We must cooperate with the Time
God designates certain times to accomplish certain things
God gives us understanding & discernment of the times:
Sons of Issachar knew what should be done in certain times
He scolds us when we don’t understand & discern the times:
Matt 16:2-3
He answered and said to them, "When it is evening you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red'; 3 and in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.
Some things happen in due season
Time is pregnant – full, due – with something
Some things happen in new season
When God “sets” the time for something to happen
Everything is orchestrated for that moment
We must cooperate with that moment
We must seize the moment – we cannot delay
Esther 4:14. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish.
Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
We must Seize the Day
John 9:4. I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.
This is not a time for waiting
This is a time to make that move
God has set the opportune moment – set up the divine intersection
God has orchestrated everything to be in order for a specific time and place
And we don’t show up
It breaks Jesus’ heart when we miss our moment
He Weeps – not just tears. He wails, openly grieves
Can’t talk ourselves out of what’s in our spirit, what’s in our hand, in our heart
Eccl 3:17. For there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
This is your day!
This is your time!
Redeem the time, because the days are evil. Eph 5:16
Heb 3:12-15. Today, when you hear His voice, harden not your heart