Walking with Jesus through Holy Week In Scripture and Prayer
Holy Tuesday is another travel day for Jesus and the disciples. They were making their way back to Jerusalem from Bethany, and once again the barren fig tree appeared before them. He couldn’t let this teaching moment pass. Jesus began to talk to them about faith, fruitfulness, and spiritual insincerity. The day before he had turned over tables in the temple, so I imagine spiritual hypocrisy was on his mind. There were no bunnies or Easter baskets waiting for them in Jerusalem, just people hungry to hear our Savior’s word.
Jesus teaches in the temple, answers questions on His authority, encourages genuine love, warns against hypocrisy, and discusses judgment and God’s fulfillment. I wish I could have been in the audience. I would have shared my bunnies with Him for sure.
Isaiah 49:1-4: Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name. He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver. He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.” But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”
Pray with Me
Dear Traveling Man,
Walking the roads from town to town had to be a difficult for you. When we don’t listen and you have to get angry an turnover tables just to get our attention I know it hurts your heart. I pray you forgive us and give us eyes to see and ears to hear.
Your walking companion.