The LORD God’s Desire:
 (NASB) Luke 13:34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her!  How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!” 

  As you read the above, do you “hear” the broken-hearted sorrow of God?  All because Jerusalem would not respond to God’s enduring love for His people!  Jesus lamented over Jerusalem as God the Son.
  The Lord God’s enduring love for His chosen people ~ even though the prophets (whom He sent to them) were killed by them.
  The Lord God’s enduring love desired to gather His people together under His protection; safety and comfort but they rejected Him…not once, not twice, but repeatedly.

  The broken-hearted sorrow of God!  His people rejected Him when they killed the very ones He sent to warn them from His sure and coming judgment against their unbelief.  He has called them to repent throughout their history (it can be read in the Torah and the Prophets and in the Old Testament of the Gentiles).

God’s enduring love is still viable for His chosen people – the Jewish nation.

  Over and over in Israel’s history you can read of God sending His message through His chosen prophets ~ and over and over you read of their rejection of His messages and messengers sent to His beloved people.

  The LORD God’s enduring knowledge will be the subject of tomorrow’s devotional…

  The enduring love of God…how can it be?  That the living God of the Holy Bible would send His only begotten Son to die for you and me?  Such amazing love…reaching, seeking, yearning, pleading, giving time to turn to Him before the time of judgment comes.  And that time will come.  The Lord God is giving each person another opportunity…to turn to Him in repentance and to accept His chosen Messiah, His Anointed One!  The Lord Jesus Christ is Savior, He is the Redeemer!

  My prayer is that you join me in being able to say along with Job:
(NASB) Job 19:25-27 “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
26 ‘Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
27 Whom I myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another’…”