Judgment on Jerusalem and It's Leaders

Judgment on Jerusalem and Its Leaders
Matthew 23.34-39

For many city-dwellers, myself included, life on a farm can appear idyllic. Memories of brief visits to farming relatives when I was a child combine with the view of peaceful rural life seen from a car or a train. Living in close touch with the land, with seedtime and harvest, with animals – this seems just what we want as an antidote to the concrete jungle, the frantic pace of life, the industrial pollution that is a daily reality for most of us.

But any farm-dweller will tell you that the reality is very different. Farming means relentless hard work under difficult conditions. And there are just as many dangers and hazards on a farm as in a town. Fire on a farm, in particular, is a nightmare. The smell of burning flesh is sickening. Animals themselves have a deep instinctive sense of danger and fear, and there are many farmyards today where dogs and cats, geese and chickens, and other small or domestic animals, are suffering traumas and don’t know why...

Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright