"The Stones Will"

Then as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and to praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, saying: "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!'" And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, "Teacher rebuke Your disciples." But He answered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out." Luke 19:37-40

In today's world we understand the idea of being replaced by technology. People have lost jobs and have been replaced by more efficient machines that can do the job faster, safer, more efficiently so as to produce a greater return or rather better results financially. In this exchange the Pharisees tell Jesus to rebuke His disciples because they were offended at the way the disciples were praising and worshiping.  The key word being disciples.  Jesus responded by telling them that "If these (His disciples) kept silent then the stones would immediately cry."

In Esther 4:14 Mordecai is standing in front of Esther and telling her, "For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish.  Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" He was telling her that she had a job to do and that the time for silence was past. It was time to speak.

 As His servants, His disciples we have a job to do!  For 'such a time as this' you and I have been called to declare His glory to this, our generation! We who are called by His name have been given the most amazing opportunity to declare all His mighty works and to cry out His praises! It is our job to declare, 'Blessed is He.who comes' and 'Glory to God in the highest!' It is our job to praise and worship Him, but if for some reason, any reason, we don't, the stones will!

Will we keep silent and allow a rock to be better at our job then we are or will we declare His Glory?