Rick Gillespie-Mobley in Choose Your Attitude. We’re doing all kinds of things hoping to find some peace, but God is saying, until you get your attitude together right here, you shall not have peace as you seek for it.
Have you ever told God, ”you can march over there, but don’t come this way because I’m not yet ready to surrender.” Where ever Jesus is not fully welcome in our lives, is where the real battle is taking place for our attitudes. But the only way Jesus can complete his desire, is for us to allow him to march in and take over without having to fight us all along the way. Michael Deutsch in The Road To The Cross!Īt the heart of Palm Sunday is Jesus’ desire to bring peace into our lives and to be willing to carry whatever burdens in life that are weighing us down. But a God of holy love will do what no one can imagine. A holy God cannot disregard wanton rebellion and a loving God cannot disregard His children. Were God merely love, the lack of discipline would destroy us. Do you see the holy love of God? Were God merely holy, we would have been destroyed. God is the just one, who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. He is at once, a righteous God and a Savior. Paul Andrew in Palm Sunday And Good Friday. If we haven’t touched and united with the vulnerable place within us, we’re normally projecting seeming invulnerability outside and judging others for their weakness. We like control God, it seems, loves vulnerability. Edward Frey in The Pathway of Palm Sunday. Then pastors, teachers, and congregations follow behind, praising God for his kingdom that has come. Missionaries go ahead, paving the way as Jesus rides in to hearts by His gospel. Our lives, the roads we walk lead us to either follow behind Christ, singing his praises, or going before him, laying palm branches and cloaks. Daniel Habban in Ponder The Palm Sunday Paradox. Though Satan would have us believe otherwise, living by Jesus’ words will never send you on a fool’s errand. Understanding that Jesus knows all things gives us confidence to follow his directions. Nor may you know whether or not there will be any decent jobs for you when you get done with your education but Jesus already has in mind how he plans to provide for you. You may not know how that medical test is going to turn out but Jesus does. If Jesus knew that a donkey was waiting for him in the next town, he certainly knows what’s down the road for you.
Jesus could see that this was their mindset, and so in the midst of this praise, with people waving the palm branches like a national flag, Jesus wept. They preferred salvation from taxation to salvation of their souls – and so in a few days they would prefer Barabbas to be freed instead of Jesus. He came in peace to give the people peace. That is impressive if you had all those people coming without our modern day advertisement ideas. The only way that they could have known that Jesus was coming was by word of mouth. Tom Fuller in The Significance Of Palm Sunday.īillboards were not around. That’s because it wasn’t time for Him to declare Himself as the Messiah. When He healed he told people not to say anything, when He confronted demons who recognized Him as the Son of God He told them to shut up. “When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the back of a donkey, and everyone was waving palm branches and throwing garments onto the road, and singing praises, do you think that for one moment it ever entered the head of that donkey that any of that was for him?” She continued, “If I can be the donkey on which Jesus Christ rides in his glory, I give him all the praise and all the honor.” Mark Schaeufele in A Messiah Who Serves.įor much of Jesus’ ministry He urged people to be quiet about who He was. Rodney Buchanan in The Lion Is A Lamb: The Humility Of God.Ĭorrie ten Boom was once asked if it were difficult for her to remain humble. We will never know, this side of heaven, what terrible struggles took place in the spiritual world between Palm Sunday and Easter morning.
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