It usually happens to me while hunting. Some of you may experience the same thing while shopping. Some of you athletes will experience the same thing in a different way. I’m talking about missed opportunity. I have failed to make a good shot and missed an opportunity. Some of you were waiting for the store to drop the price another 15%, while you waited, they sold out. Maybe you are a baseball player and you held back when you should have taken a swing. You won’t get that pitch again! Palm Sunday, for all its festivity and celebration was really quite a sad day. At least it was for Jesus. People were missing an incredible opportunity. In Luke 19, we find Jesus weeping. This wasn’t His first or only lament over the city where God had put His Name. In fact, God was grieved many times over the lack of positive response from the leadership of this city. (Read Lamentations) But, while there is sadness in understanding the response, there is also hope. The tears of Jesus are tears of compassion—oh how He loves! And, the promises He makes during the Passion Week remind us that He has every intention of coming back. The Second Advent reminds us that He is not done with us. We are also admonished to not miss an opportunity to believe and receive the life He is offering. “Join” us on Sunday as we consider the entrance of the Lamb of God, who came to take away the sin of the world.