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Week 50, Day 5 — A minute with the Word

Jeremy Paschall
12/08/24 - Podcast

And now, a minute with the Word…

When Mordecai learned of Haman’s plot, he “tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes…and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry” (Esther 4.1), grieving the seemingly imminent death of his fellow Jews. “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6.23), but do we grieve the imminent death of our fellow man still lost in sin? Jesus “grieved at [His enemies’] hardness of heart” (Mark 3.5); and later, “when He drew near and saw [Jerusalem], He wept over it” (Luke 19.41). The apostle Paul experienced “great sorrow and unceasing anguish in [his] heart” for his “kinsmen according to the flesh” (Romans 9.2-3), i.e. Jews who remained outside of Christ and thus unsaved. Think on these things!