Savior's triumphant entry into Jerusalem

This week it was inevitable not to bring at my memory one of my favorite trip in my entire life to Jerusalems. One thing in the story of Luke about the Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem is in the verses 41 to 44.

"And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the thing which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation".

The interesting thing about those verses is that Jews didn't recognize the Savior. I think that there were two reason because He cried when saw the city. The first is for their hardness and the second is because He knew the thing will happen the Jews people.

Now reflecting when Jesus saw the city and cried, can be a metaphor of us. We are in the world surrounded of people and when He saw in my direction what is He seeing? when He see me, what can He see? 

When I was visit Jerusalem five years ago I was in the same place when Jesus saw the city and then cried, and one thing that shocked me it was, what about if I was one of those who didn't recognize Him and one of His tear it was for me, because I am hardness. 

When I looked my personal life and the thing that I have done, is tough to admit that multiple time I have been like one of those people in Jerusalem that even though Him, they preferred not recognize Him as the Savior and His King. 

A good Samaritan

 In Luke 10 we found the parable about the good Samaritan. In this parable there are a lot interesting thing to introduce us in a world full of symbolism. But there are a couple thing that I would like to share in this blog.

The first thing is about the man. In Luke 10:30 said that the "man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho". Jerusalem in those days represented the Temple, in other words a holy place and Jericho represented the fall, because the city of Jericho is under the below sea level. Now this man leave the holy place or the presence of God and went to the world. In his journey, a dangerous path, but he took the decision and went forth. Even though the path from one city to the other was dangerous for travelers, the question is why he took it? why he took the risk? Maybe there was something important in Jericho to take the risk. Now after the man suffer the attack from the thieves, and almost die, is interesting how this man is representing all of us. One day we left the God presence and came to this world, and during our path for this mortal life we will suffer different kind of injury or attack, some of this attack will not been too dangerous and other will left us like this man, almost die in the middle of our journey. 

The second thing is about this other the Samaritan, in the verse 33 said "but a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion on him". In this point the Samaritan represent our Savior, and He was also in this road, in a dangerous road to him too. When He saw the man, like the scripture said " he had compassion on him", if all of us are represented for the man, this mean that the Savior had compassion for all of us, independent of our injury. Whom else could take care us in this way? Who will pay for us? What the Samaritan did for this man is the same that He is doing today for us. He always is for us when we need to heal our injuries.

The third thing is how can I do the same? or in other words to reply the words of the Lord to the certain lawyer, in the verse 37 "Go, and do thou likewise". Maybe we'll feel not able to help anybody because we have a lot of need to be satisfied, but certainly when we do even a little bit like minister other, we'll be healing one injury, and then another one will be heal. I guess the important thing is not become like the priest or the levite.

I am ready for the seed

 This week I stoped in the parable of the sower, in Matthew 13:18-23 where the Lord explained to his disciples. But, when I was reading it was not hard to bring me back some memories that gave me a different point of view of this parable. During my entire life I always applied this parable to the people non member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint, but in this opportunity I applied to myself. The way that I applied to myself if was focus in the ground and not in the seed, (we know that the seed is good), but the my ground where the seed will be put it, it was my problem. How many time in my own life the ground was not ready, how many days I lost invaluable time because the seed couldn't grow up just for the ground it was not ready. So, I made me the question, how important is the ground to me? and What am I doing to become in fertile ground?

Maybe there are many ways to prepare the ground, but I selected one, which one it will take time to develop that at the end will work. I'm working in one Christlike attribute the Humility. For the next six week I will working on specific goals which allow me to become more like Christ and at the same time it will be one nutrient to the soil.