Hello from Jerusalem. There are no words for this city, it is amazing. Today is Sunday and about 100,000 Sundays ago Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey on the same road I walked down today. I walked down in with my mouth open just in awe of this city - I've never experienced anything like it. We went to the garden of gethsemane and prayed where Jesus did the night he was betrayed and arrested. The garden looks right at the city of Jerusalem, i guess i always thought he was farther out of the city. One of the olive trees was huge meaning it was over 2000 years old so it was there when Jesus was here. We drove by the Dung gate which was awesome because I love the book of Nehemiah and it's referenced there. On the way into Jerusalem today we drove right along the path where the Good Samaritan helped the man who was robbed by thieves. The Bible has just come alive.
Yesterday we walked around the caves where David hid from Saul and wrote a few psalms including Psalm 57. There were somethings like conies (little rodent looking things) and deer looking things with huge horns and David describes some of these things in the Psalms and it just makes sense. We also floated in the Dead Sea last night and there is so much salt that you float. i tried to stand up and it would literally push you off your feet. if you were on your stomach it was so hard to get on your back. Behind the Dead Sea lay the mountains range on which the Israelites wandered on from Egypt and where Moses is buried. I can't explain it but the Bible literally has come alive as i'm seeing the things Jesus, Moses, David and so many more saw. It sheds light on all the analogies and parables.
One major thought I keep continually having is "This has nothing to do with me". It's like here is this huge story and these chosen people that God loves dearly for thousands of years and I just got grafted in. I get to be a part of this story and therefore all of this is my heritage. The next 3 days we will be spending in Jerusalem and there is so much to see, so much happened in Scripture right here. My hunger for God's Word is insatiable right now as many have said on the trip "it's like the pieces are coming together".
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No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself." Jaques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity...How awesome that you get to be where 'God put Himself on our level'...love you!!
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