Palm Sunday 2023
Palm Sunday. A beast of burden. A lone rider. Clothes littering the street. Jubilant crowds. Praises given. Victory proclaimed. Branches of palms strewn across His path. Triumphal entry. A hero’s welcome. This was the first Palm Sunday. The prophet Zechariah, wrote:
“…Cry out with joy, O daughter of Zion! Shout jubilantly,
O daughter of Jerusalem! Look—your King is coming;
He is righteous and able to save.
He comes seated humbly on a donkey, on a colt…”
A week later: Crickets. Worse. Allegiance forgotten. Selfish admirers. Hypocrites. Haters. From hero to apparent zero in less than a week. Palm Sunday has a lesson for each of us...