Welcome Him
Jesus entered…He had looked round…He went out. Mark 11:11
Jesus “entered into” Jerusalem and into the temple. He “looked around upon all things” and probably saw nothing but barrenness and hypocrisy in the people and their formal worship. Finding nothing for God He “went out” and repaired to Bethany. There He would, as ever, find friends, fellowship and a genuine love for God. He still sees barrenness in the world today. It, and its empty religion, has no attraction for Him. But He still loves to be where His own are and there He gathers with them. Let us today welcome Him in from a cold and wicked world, where He is despised and rejected of men, to the warmth of our hearts.
--Roy Hill
O Saviour, make these hearts of ours Thy Bethany, dear Bethany!
And grant to us the balmy showers of Bethany, dear Bethany!
--F. Crosby
