Morning by Morning, April 8, 2025 - “Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord”
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let Your words of spirit and life saturate my soul and set me on the path of Your will for my life today. ...
“On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to (Jesus), ‘Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.’
“And He said to them, ‘Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’ Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing. See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” (Luke 13:31-35)
Your heart was to heal the broken and free the bound, to bring the good news of the kingdom of God to all who would hear (Luke 4:18-21). But not all would hear. In their power and pride, in their self-righteousness and legalism, they hardened their hearts against Your words of spirit and life, blaspheming the Spirit of God and rejecting the Author of Life (Matthew 12:31).
Yet even though You saw with sadness their suffering and the destruction to come as Jerusalem would reject her Messiah, You also spoke a word of hope. A day would come when they would see You again. And on that day, Jerusalem would look up to You and speak out from her heart, “Blessed is the He who comes in the name of the Lord.”
Your Word also prophesied long before Your first coming of Your second coming, foreseeing Your rejection by Your people at first, but also followed by Your redemption of Your people in the end: “And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the One whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn.... On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity” (Zechariah 12:9-13:1)
Thank You for Your heart of mercy for me and for us all. Thank You for Your heart of mercy even for any whose hearts are hardened in self-centered, self-sufficient pride to reject the One who loves them so. According to Your Word, Your heart is to never give up. Your love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8). Your steadfast love never ceases and Your mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; for great is Your faithfulness (Lamentations 3:22-23). You’re the God “who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4). You’re the God who’s “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). You’re the God who declares in Your love for all the people of all the world, “that whosoever believes in (You) should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
These are Your Word declaring Your will. It’s hard to comprehend just how far Your mercy reaches to all who would turn to You in humility and faith. But I join in agreement with Your will to be worked out in ways we can’t even imagine in the mercy and love and grace of God through Jesus Christ.
I pray for Jerusalem to receive her Messiah. In the same way, I pray for the people of this world who have been blinded to the truth of Your mercy and love to be set free to see how good You are and embrace Your Good News of the Kingdom of God available to all (2 Corinthians 4:4). And I look forward to the day when even the hearts of the people of Jerusalem will turn to You and say, “Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord.” This is the peace I pray for Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6). This is “the One who comes in the name of the Lord”—the One who is Jerusalem’s and all the world’s “Prince of Peace” who is ready to be received and embraced by all (Isaiah 9:6).
In the power of Your grace, in mystery of faith and the sovereignty of God, let Your Word be fulfilled: “All Israel will be saved.... And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins” (Romans 11:26-27). And let Your Message of hope and Your Words of spirit and life fill my heart and the heart of my world today. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be moved in prayer for all who would embrace in their hearts the One who comes in the name of the Lord, that they may be saved, even as you pray for the peace of the Jerusalem through embracing her Messiah, the One who is her Prince of Peace and ours, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!
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