It\u2019s Palm Sunday \u2013 just one week before Easter \u2013 oh the joy of our Risen Lord! But, hold on! Without this week, there would be no Resurrection Sunday! On this day, the disciples and the crowds were fanatical praisers and worshippers \u2013 waving palm branches and shouting \u201cHosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.\u201d Matthew 21:9. The crowds rejoiced in His powers of healing, in the miracles He\u2019d performed; His popularity reigned supreme. He was SOMEBODY! While kings today ride in streamlined jets, King Jesus rode in on a donkey, a symbol of meekness and peace. How different His entry was \u2013 not a 21-gun salute, but the swishing of palm branches.
But those finding-fault Pharisees complained about all the raucous: “Teacher, reprove Your disciples!\u201d Notice that they didn’t call Jesus \u201cKing.\u201d They called Him “teacher.” To them, Jesus was no greater than any other teacher. He had become a threat to their “authority.” This, SOMEBODY, was getting in their way! But our \u201crock-solid\u201d Lord replied, \u201cI tell you, if they keep silent, the stones will cry out!\u201d And we took Christ\u2019s words so seriously, that today we join those crowds of praising and worshipping our King of Kings and Lord of Lords! We will NOT allow the rocks and stones to outdo us!
Those of us who know Him as Savior and Lord cannot be silenced by a few who would \u201creprove\u201d us. We know what this week represents. We stand in allegiance to Him as in this week, He was our humble, suffering, sacrificial servant. He suffered rejection, lies, beatings, floggings, being nailed to the cross and dying for us. We are doing our best to follow His lead because we’ve learned not to run away or cower in the face of difficulty. We want the world to know that Jesus Christ is King and it is worth the price of ridicule and rejection to proclaim Him as our Lord and Savior. This Holy Week, we continue to journey on with our precious Lord. What a gift it is to know the promise that awaits us if we stay with Him on the road. If we are faithful servants, we will also know the empty tomb, and best of all, we will abide with Him forever in eternity.
Not only did our King know precisely who He was when He entered Jerusalem, He knows who He is as He enters the Jerusalem of our lives. He touches ALL people \u2013 those with rank, and those who are broken, rejected, and unloved. He never refuses anyone who comes to Him for help. He helps those with shattered dreams and bruised spirits. That’s the kind of Lord He is! That’s the kind of KING He is! Today, He desires to transform us, touch our lives and make us new. He loves us so much that He was thinking about us then….and He is still thinking about us today. \u201cHosanna! Our King has come! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s Palm Sunday \u2013 just one week before Easter \u2013 oh the joy of our Risen Lord! But, hold on! Without this week, there would be no Resurrection Sunday! On this day, the disciples and the crowds were fanatical praisers and worshippers \u2013 waving palm branches and shouting \u201cHosanna! Blessed is he who comes in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12828,4444,12830,3361,5635,4729,3670,3362,6185,3365,12829,877,812,8840,3331,7518,12023],"class_list":["post-9898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-21-gun-salute","tag-donkey","tag-ego-donkey","tag-hosanna","tag-humble","tag-jerusalem","tag-jesus-christ","tag-king-is-coming","tag-lord","tag-palm-sunday","tag-pomp-and-circumstance","tag-resurrection","tag-royalty","tag-sacrificial","tag-servant","tag-suffering","tag-throne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9901,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions\/9901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}