NKJV Luke 13

We had snow this morning! Well Flurries anyway and it only last for a second but regardless it snowed :)  Cant believe it was 80 on Saturday and 29 degrees today. Its no wonder everyone has been sick...speaking up I am still suffering with a sore throat and head congestion and I have Christmas parties and such to get ready for.  I got dinner started in the fridge and now its me and God's time.

In Luke 13 Jesus is talking about who sins more and who is more guilty the Galileans who blood Pilate mixed their blood with their sacarficces or those who listen and wont repent..for they too will perish. Jesus heals a crippled woman on the sabbath and receives from flack from the synagogue ruler but Jesus said You hyprocites! Don't each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not his woman, daughter of Abraham, whom satan has keep bound for eighteen long years be set free on the sabbath day from what has bound her"  I bet it was quite for a while.  In Verses 31-35 we find  my S.O.A.P. of the day but you get a glimpse of Herod wanting to kill Jesus.

S.O.A.P.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent tot you, how often i have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 35 Look, your house is left to you desolate, I tell you, you will not see me again until you say " Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord"

Observation
Jesus & God want to draw us near to him, but we are not letting him.

Application
Call me broken, but for some reason I haven't ever really felt God's love. I know its their, I can see evidence of it and I know its something in my past that has created a barrier ( I am sure the devil had a hand in that one) in me from feeling it. I have sought counseling and worked though most of it and basically I know just what Jesus is saying... How long has he wanted to gather me and put me under his wing. I know that and I can feel his love more than I could in years past. I know the devil is using that to further widen the space between me and God...but i am not going to let him!

Prayer

Dear Lord,

You know me more than I know my self, you know my struggles and reservations and my walls that i put in place to keep me safe but you are also the one who can knock them down. I thank you for the battles you won for me, and I pray that I will always know you are by my side in the next one.

Amen