Risking Your Piece

In this sermon series we’ve been talking about taking risks. One of the biggest risks you can take is to care. All of the sudden, you’ve allowed someone into your heart - and once that has happened, you are at great risk of loss.

Listen to this passage about Jesus. In another one of the Gospels Jesus uses the image of being like a mother wanting to protect her little ones.

As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” - Luke 19:41-44

One of the ways that Jesus risked peace is that he cared about people. So when he saw them choosing domineering power and individual isolation and exploitation of others, he wept. He wept for the victims and the victimizers, for the breakers and the broken, knowing that each one was in dire need of God’s care and love and salvation.

It cost Jesus dearly to care. What are some of the ways it costs you to care?