“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Mt 23:37).
Six hundred years before, Jeremiah asked, “Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?” (15:5). Jesus is the answer! And does the One “who desires ALL men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:4) grieve over your town? Do we?
To press the point, I often wonder about the rich man in hell of whom the Savior spoke (Lk 16). Besides a wet finger across his tongue, what else did he want? Someone still on earth to go and plead with his relatives! It may be too much to say there are prayer meetings in hell, but is there someone there today who wants their relatives in your town visited? Could we join the Shepherd of lost sheep in both praying for and seeking such today?