Sunday April 5th. – Lent 2009

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Today is a significant part of Lent, it is Palm Sunday and represents the beginning of Holy Week. For the context of Today, take the time to read Mark 11:1-11 and consider.

Today represents the day when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a humble donkey and the people received him as a King, laying their cloaks and leafy branches they had cut in the fields on the ground before him. Those who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:

Hosanna!
Blessed be the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!

These people were pregnant with anticipation and an assumption about what that kingdom was to be. As we look to a different response at the end of Holy Week and the call from the people for his crucifixion take the time to put the coming days aside as you reflect today. Today reflect on what the Kingdom of God really looks like, not the way these people saw it, but the way Jesus painted it in parables and stories. Feel the anticipation and reality of that kingdom… a Kingdom that turns the world upside down – a Kingdom that makes the first last and the last first, a Kingdom that has come near and as we sense that Kingdom, let’s cry – Hosanna! Blessed be the one who came in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the Kingdom of Christ! Hosanna in the highest heaven!