My Daily Pause

Flevit super illam (He wept over it) 1892 – Enrique Simonet (1866–1927)

From the time of Jesus’ triumphal entry (Luke 19:37) until his crucifixion, the Pharisees were able to turn the crowd against Jesus. In less than a week, nearly everyone was influenced and mobilized against him.

Turning the crowd’s attitude seems to be pretty easy:

• We have seen lots of laws passed in the last few years that that would have never been considered before.
• We see attitudes and actions being praised that would have ruined careers in previous generations.
• We are giving away rights and responsibilities that many before us died over.

The formula is straight-forward:

• Plant an idea.
• Talk about it.
• Live it.
• Repeat.

I believe we still have enough devoted Christians to do the same thing they did.

But someone has to start.

Daily Bible reading for September 27

Psalm 57
2 Samuel 16:15-17:23
Ezekiel 18
Luke 19:28-46