Palm SundayWalking with Jesus through Holy Week In Scripture and Prayer
Oh my, did the children come walking down the aisle of your church this morning waving palm branches? That is my favorite Sunday until the one when Mary runs into to tell everyone…oops spoiler alert. I’ll stop here with that train of thought. If you didn’t get to see that perhaps you’ll remember the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey with everyone shouting hosanna claiming him to be the Mesiah. Days before, Jesus wept because he knew what lay ahead. I remember the “happy” and put the “hurt and pain” away in my back pocket. I guess that’s because I know Jesus is there is handling all my little discomforts of life. The least I can do to keep my pockets empty.
Philippians 2:5-11: Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore, God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.