Salvation
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Searching for Salvation
While doing my devotion this morning I came across a statement that penetrated through my soul. The writer said, “People searched for salvation everywhere except where they could find it.” The story was in Luke 19:28-44. Jesus descended the mountain, seeing Jerusalem on the horizon and he wept. Not quiet tears did he shed but he klaio. Klaio, the greek word meaning to wail loudly. Jesus wept the full journey down the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley and into the city through the Sheep Gate. The wind likely carried the scent of burning flesh from the sacrifices offered high above on the Temple altar. He was headed into…