Christ's Sorrowful Lament for Lost Souls
Illustration★★★★I have searched through literature, I have read many a touching and tender passage, I have read the tear- awakening lament of “In Memoriam,” I have been stirred to generous passion by the loving lines of Hood over the unfortunate for whose life society seemed responsible, I have listened to the frenzied wail of Hecuba in her abounding grief, I have seen the old Greek hero dazed by the darkness and I have heard his cry for light; but I have never met with pathos so moving as the cry of Omnipotence and Love,” Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life!” (John v. 40).
The point
Jesus's cry 'Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life!' is more moving and sorrowful than any human lament in all of literature, revealing His love and our resistance.