King Of Kings

Today is Palm Sunday for those of you who don't know, and for those of us who follow Jesus, it's a great day to celebrate Jesus announcing His Kingdom.

Many people traditionally look at Palm Sunday as the "beginning of the end", asa they think of this signalling Jesus' last week on earth before his cruel death; but actually, it was more like the "end of the beginning", in that Jesus proclaimed on this day that He was here to do something completely different, that would change the world forever. No more would God's people worry about their relationship with Him, no more would they have to go through ritual to make themselves right before him, because this week, His Son would die to announce a new covenant, written in blood, and cut into the very hands and feet of His Son.

This week he would announce that He was King of the whole Universe, not merely just a people group. This week He would show that God's love would be open to anyone.

This week he would show that God would rather die than be separated from us.

This week, death itself would die, and it's power over us in fearing it would be broken, as God would raise His Son from the dead, justifying everything he had taught and lived during his short life here on earth.

This week he would die to make us ultimately free.

Free of things that hold us back, free of things that prevent us from moving forward, free of worry over our life, free of hurts, pains and regrets.

Free to love Him because He first loved us.

We shouldn't mourn Palm Sunday, we should celebrate, as Jesus himself said on that day : "even these very stones will cry out in praise".

The whole of creation waits this week, this Holy Week, to be redeemed.

Finally.

Ultimately.

Completely.

Painfully.

For Jesus, Palm Sunday was the announcement to the world of why He'd come. He'd come to set up His Kingdom, and NOTHING would stop it.

That's why I love Palm Sunday.

Hallelujah!