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Devotional: March 26th

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Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Luke 23:28-31. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 1 Peter 4:18.

The pious women followers of Jesus wept when their Master was led through the crowded streets of the so-called Holy City as a malefactor condemned to death. And who would not have wept? Who ought not weep as often as he thinks, "Such disgrace my innocent Savior must suffer because of me, a sinner worthy of disgrace; and yet I reward Him so poorly. It is so difficult for me to suffer even an insignificant dishonor for His sake. " The Savior foresaw this, and while He does not blame them for shedding tears, yet He does not say that they ought not weep. For they ought to weep, but not for Him. He does not need our tears. We should weep for ourselves. You surely do not ask why? If you know your heart, you will find enough for which to weep, yea, even to weep blood if that were possible. ’’For if they do such things in a green tree," since God because of sin did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up to such dishonor, to the cross and to death, "what shall be done in the dry? " (Luke 2:31 ). What will God do to the sinner who will not be softened, nor converted and saved by this great love of God? What will He do to the false Christians who weep, but who do not cling to the Savior with their whole heart; who live to this world and to themselves and not to Him who died for them? Thou dry tree, thou unfruitful Christian, who without heart, without repentance, and without love, callest Jesus thy Savior and sayest, ’’Lord, Lord," but doest not His will, who boastest of the righteousness and the merits of Christ, and yet art satisfied with the righteousness of the Pharisees; thou dry tree, become green once more! Graft thyself by repentance, faith and love into the green tree of the cross of Christ, into the fellowship of His sufferings and death. Then thou shalt not be consumed, but thou shalt escape the eternal fire.

Then for all that wrought our pardon.

For Thy sorrows deep and sore,

For Thine anguish in the garden,

I will thank Thee evermore;

Thank Thee with my latest breath

For Thy sad and cruel death,

For that last and bitter cry;

Praise Thee evermore on high.

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