It’s Palm Sunday and we begin the week that Christians reflect on Christ’s Passion. This is a time to contemplate with intentionality and purpose. As if walking with Christ through the various events and scenes of that week that all of the Gospel writers give us so much detail, we can revisit the highs and lows of a week that changed everything. Each of us should slow down at various points in the next 7 days to imagine what it was like, and what it all means!
All across America churches recognized Palm Sunday today. Perhaps this was the one day in Jesus’ earthly life that most closely approximated what He deserved to receive from mankind. Shouts of “Hosanna” and blessing were what He should have heard every day of His earthly existence. Greeted by palm branches and cloaks across His path, the people in Jerusalem that day responded with celebration to a sight that was as ironic in its appearance as was the crowd’s response to it. The King was riding on a donkey?
Not quite the transcendent entrance of the military King they had anticipated, but a King nonetheless. A colt instead of a stallion. His victory later that week would be just as underestimated as His appearance at that moment. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. Today is Palm Sunday! Today we celebrate the King’s entrance and a day that rightly ascribes glory and fame to the Son of God. Had we been there, we too would have anticipated a different outcome of those seven days. Praise God for a rejected stone that would become the Cornerstone!
“Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”
In just a few days some of those same voices will be shouting “Crucify Him!” Yet another irony of this remarkable week!
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