The One Who Brings Peace

 Genesis 47-48; Psalms 10; Luke 19 

“As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace…because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”

Luke 19:41, 42, 44

Jerusalem means city of peace. Jesus wept because he had come to bring peace with God, beyond any blood sacrifice ever offered, and peace among peoples who have never experienced the peace of God. Jesus wept because he saw the destruction of Jerusalem forty years later - he had prayed for a different destiny for this city of peace.

When we are also living in a time of God’s coming to us, how are we responding?

Are we receiving the Prince of Peace as nations and cities?

There is no other peace plan that transforms individuals and communities. Jesus is coming to us now to bring us peace, and then work through us to live and share the good news of his gospel of peace. Now is our time.

“Lord Jesus, you are the only peace that will transform my community and the world, for your glory.”