This
Holy Week is full of all sorts of feelings and emotions. We look towards that
most gruesome event, the cross, and we shudder to even go there. Even today, as
we think about the Triumphal Entry, we shrink back from declaring it really to
be a triumph. It was so short lived. But was it?
Wasn’t it really the purpose? That a
great one must be killed, the greatest one for the greatest number of people?
And He was and His death was not the end of the story. Do not shrink away from
the week, the adulation of the crowds, the scorn of the leaders, the complicity
of the civil rulers, the torture, the death, the silent Saturday.
When Jesus arises, this all gets
brought into perspective. When He ascends to rule forever and ever, the
adulation of the crowds is realized. His triumphal entry really was triumph.
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
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