#5 Draw Close To God _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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 chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!(Matt. 23:37)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------One of the keys to dealing with our various emotional states is to recognize that Christ really is for us,that he wants to see us find happiness in life. If we recognize this we are freed to open ourselves to the good things He has for us. During a hailstorm, a mother hen-at the risk of her own life-instinctively opens her wings for her young chicks to run under, in order to save thier lives. In this precious passage of scipture, Christ shows His tremendous love for us humans by alluding to his own approuching death on the cross for our sins, comparing it indirectly to a mother hen gathering her chicks under her wings to protect them. Surely Christ stands ready to love us and protect us if only we will let Him. He gives us that choise. The Jews He witnessed to in Jerusalem that day chose to reject Him, but we (whether we are Gentile or Jewish) can choose to accept His intimacy and His protection from eternal damnation as well as from the hell of emotional pain in this life.
AI
