Day 1 | Palm Sunday
As we head into Easter Sunday, let’s look back at the week leading up to Jesus’s resurrection.
Let’s start with what is called “the triumphal entry” into Jerusalem. Jesus entered into Jerusalem on a donkey, which doesn’t sound triumphant, but what I love about that, it is triumphant for those that understood the prophecy from Zechariah 9:9 "... your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
Take a moment to imagine the scene, people rushing to show their respects by laying clothes and palm branches on the ground for the donkey carrying Jesus to walk on. I think I might have thought those people were losing it, but I pray I would be one of those people who knew the truth and didn’t care what others around them thought of them.
They were shouting, Matthew 21:9 “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest Heaven!” Hosanna in Hebrew means to save, rescue or savior. Imagine 400 years have passed from the Old Testament to now the time of Jesus, the patience and probably lack of patience for some to still believe a Savior was coming as promised.
Choosing to believe Jesus is who God says He is, probably felt scary to a lot of people, just like today, no one wants to look like a “fool” but they had heard of the miracles Jesus had done and chose to believe. That’s all we can really do, right - choose to believe that what God says is true.
Take some time to ask yourself the question, would I have been throwing clothes and palm branches down for Jesus, or would I have been standing back waiting to see what happened, or been like a Pharisee completely rebuking him? And then ask yourself, whichever one I think I would have been in Jesus time, is that who I am today? Do I fully believe that Jesus is the Son of God, is my savior, that he died and rose again for my sins? Or do I think it sounds nice and just go along with the crowd one way or the other?
I want to be the person shouting Hosanna in the streets, throwing down anything that would help pave the way for Jesus to enter into other’s lives, but I can’t say that’s who I always am. It is convicting and a question I will keep asking myself everyday. To think more like Jesus, I need to choose to believe in Him first.
Father God, thank you for sending your one and only son to us. The magnitude of this sacrifice is something I can’t fully comprehend. Thank you for each woven piece of Jesus’s story and my story. I pray as I study the days leading up to Easter, that a new revelation happens within my heart, that you bring my heart closer to yours and in turn lay out my steps to share your love with others. I pray for anyone reading this that they feel the fullness of your love and peace, and ask to know you more. In Jesus Name I Pray, Amen.
More reading Matthew 21: 1- 11
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