Holy Week 2023 Reflections
Imagine with me that you have a car inside your garage. Two strangers come up and ask you for the car keys. Startled, you ask why. The two strangers reply, deadpan, “The Lord needs it.”
I don’t know about you, but I will be calling the cops.
But that’s essentially what happened so Jesus can do the Triumphant Entry, the event which we celebrate as Palm Sunday.
Jesus told two of His disciples, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’” They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” (Mark 11:2-5)
Now imagine the people, especially the fellow who owned that donkey, calling the cops. Or Roman centurions.
The astonishing thing was that the disciples answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go (v 6). No police alerts. No road blocks. No cease and desist order.
We rightly focus on the King Who rode on that donkey on His way to Jerusalem. But I wonder what we can learn from the fact that the donkey was borrowed under unusual circumstances.
First, the Lord is sovereign over everything. Would it be possible that someone will stop Him from getting that donkey?
Second, if the Lord wants something from us, would we have surrendered it to Him whole-heartedly?
Third, think about what we surrender to the Lord. Can it be that the Lord will use it to further His Kingship?
April 2, 2023
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