Since we know the story well, you can imagine some of the feelings Jesus had when he said, “You will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
Of course, Jesus is talking about physical vision. The people would see him parade into town on a donkey. At the same time, Luke demonstrates that the people in Jerusalem could not see what was right in front of them. They saw a teacher but not truth. They saw miracles but missed God's kingdom. And they missed God's presence because of their desire for power.
Their misunderstanding gives us pause enough to ask, What do we see?
As we consider how a passage like this speaks to our hearts, we realize there is also a vision of the heart. A recognition of God’s presence in a way that transforms how we live. As such, when Jesus speaks of seeing again, maybe we can take that as an invitation to a different kind of awareness. One that begins with the humility to acknowledge that we don’t always recognize God’s movement, even when it stands right in our path.
The phrase Jesus uses, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord,” isn’t a cute thing to hear our children recite on Palm Sunday. It's a psalm (118:26), and also a posture of the heart. If we welcome the One who comes in the name of the Lord, we learn to see whatever God is doing, even if it looks different from what we expected.
In that sense, to see Jesus again is to see differently. It is to confess that our vision gets narrow. Maybe our expectations have become too small. Maybe God has been near in places we never thought to look.
So, pray for renewed sight. To recognize holiness when it comes, to bless the arrival of God’s liberating presence, and to open your heart to the One who still comes in the name of the Lord.
Stay blessed...john | 
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