Today is Palm Sunday, a day
in which many of our ancient Christian kin proclaimed loud Hosannas to the Son
of David. Jesus gladly received these proclamations and rode into Jerusalem
victorious. The King of all the Earth had arrived. That was even more than the
crowds had anticipated. But the Triumphal Entry was followed by betrayal,
desertion, accusation, suffering and death. This was all a necessary part
of the total Triumph of Jesus.
We,
too, have been deserted by those we love, accused by the devil and suffered
humiliation and defeat. And we have felt the agony of our own sins, those for
which Jesus suffered in the garden, before Pontias Pilate and on the cross. But
in all of this, Jesus was the overwhelming victor, triumphing over all this
sin, accusation and betrayal.
There is life in Jesus. We embrace that but it leads us to death
to self through suffering. That is hard but then we realize that this then
leads us to life in Jesus that no man can take from us. This is the pattern,
life, death, life. As we stand before the Lord in full forgiveness we are
standing in that Resurrection Life.
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