Palm Sunday

Happy Palm Sunday - the traditional day we celebrate Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem riding on a donkey on his road to death on the cross and to resurrection. The crowds that lines the streets waving palm branches welcoming Jesus - cheering him on - cried "Hosanna" which means "deliver us". They had been waiting 400 years for a promised warrior king to come riding on the clouds to restore the nation of Israel to it's rightful place of honour and to defeat the occupying Roman empire. They were waiting for "the One". Little did they know that the saviour (the anointed one or messiah) of Israel was not coming with a sword and violent power to defeat the human enemy, but he was coming with humility, obedience and the power of sacrifice to defeat the spiritual enemy of death. And this Messiah was not just for Israel, but for the whole world. For you and me. You never know what you are going to get...sometimes you get a whole lot more.