Read: Mark 11:1-11
King for a Day
All four Gospel writers record Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey on that first Palm Sunday where the people laid palm branches in his path and shouted, Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel.
Popularity and praise are fleeting, fickle, uncertain. They are is here today and gone tomorrow. It was no different on Jesus’ day of triumph. Some of the same people who cried Hosanna “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord” were the very ones who in less than a week would cry out Crucify him! Crucify him! He may have been “King for a Day” then – but he continued on his journey to the cross and because of his resurrection he became king forevermore. Just as the gates were thrown open to admit Jesus that first Palm Sunday, so we ought to throw open the doors of our hearts to let him in today. Don’t let anything or anyone stop your Hosanna!
O Lord, teach us the meaning of thy grace and mercy. Enable us to take up the work that thy has assigned each one of us. With the knowledge that you will never leave nor forsake us, and that your faithfulness and tender mercies endure forever.
Rev. Dr. E. Allen Stewart
Consulting Pastor
King for a Day
All four Gospel writers record Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey on that first Palm Sunday where the people laid palm branches in his path and shouted, Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel.
Popularity and praise are fleeting, fickle, uncertain. They are is here today and gone tomorrow. It was no different on Jesus’ day of triumph. Some of the same people who cried Hosanna “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord” were the very ones who in less than a week would cry out Crucify him! Crucify him! He may have been “King for a Day” then – but he continued on his journey to the cross and because of his resurrection he became king forevermore. Just as the gates were thrown open to admit Jesus that first Palm Sunday, so we ought to throw open the doors of our hearts to let him in today. Don’t let anything or anyone stop your Hosanna!
O Lord, teach us the meaning of thy grace and mercy. Enable us to take up the work that thy has assigned each one of us. With the knowledge that you will never leave nor forsake us, and that your faithfulness and tender mercies endure forever.
Rev. Dr. E. Allen Stewart
Consulting Pastor