April 05, 2009> 12:11 PM
a bad day for Jesus
The biggest thing that comes to my mind today is not much different than every year on Palm Sunday - not a good day for Jesus. Are we supposed to think this was an awesome worship party in Jerusalem that day? Palm waving and cheering - and Jesus wasn't happy about it - why? Because they weren't cheering for Him. They were cheering for some other Messiah, and He knew it. He knew they wouldn't be cheering or waving palms much for what He was really there to do and how He was going to accomplish it. No royal robes. No great army. No smiting the Roman oppressors. And the only crown He would wear was not quite the sparkling one in the imaginations of his kin folk.
I think we're often the same today. The Church - I mean the whole spread-out Body of Christ - looks for a Jesus who doesn't exist, at least not exactly in the way we want Him to. I think He's still sad, as much as God can be sad, because we still so seldom really understand Who He Is, who We are. Today, we should take stock, here at the end of Lent - take stock of our vision, how we see, how awake we are to the reality of Who our Savior Is and what He came for. We need to open our eyes after this long darkness and see His Light.
April 05, 2009
> 12:11 PM
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