Day Thirty-Six // April 7 // Abandoned Principles “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox –
Jesus arrives in Jerusalem to the adulation of the crowds. His heart was moved by their hopes and dreams… so moved that He wept. Tears of compassion flowed because the people had no idea how to reach the God they sought. Their modes of worship born in the wilderness-journey from Egypt had become hardened, calcified. The religious leaders looked with disdain at the people who could never measure up to their standards. Behind a wall of hypocrisy and greed, the people were blocked on their spiritual quest. In face of all that, Jesus walked into the Temple. This was the seat of the nation’s identity with God. The Passover He’d come to celebrate would have brought
