Psalm31.9-16│Isaiah 50.4-9a│Philippians 2.5-11│Mark14.1-15.47
Psaumes 31.9-16|Ésaïe 50:4-9|Philippiens 2.5-11|Marc 14.1-15.47
When I was a child, Palm Sunday was all about Hosannas,
cries of joy, a donkey, and a crowd, and of course using the palm cross to
sword fight with my friends after Sunday School.
'Crucifix'
How could I have missed this? I have become a
reproach to all my enemies and even to my neighbours, an object of dread to my acquaintances; when they see me in the street
they flee from me. Ps 31.11
They certainly weren’t fleeing him that first Palm Sunday, but the bright sunshine of the triumphal entry was the beginning of something that was much more in the shadow of death.
As this week goes on,
our eyes and our thoughts turn towards a cross on a hill outside the city which
he entered in triumph.
Our lives are often a mixture of sunshine and shade; one or other seeming stronger at different times; and perhaps no more so than in the last twelve months. God calls us in and through our troubles on a pilgrimage of hope as we walk with him.
As our troubles form a part of our journey to the glory of God’s presence, so the cross of Christ stands before us as part of the triumph of Palm Sunday.
As the writer to the Hebrews writes: “let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12.1-2.
Let us this week look to Jesus, as we walk with him to Good Friday and the joy of Easter.
John Wilkinson
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