Holy Week 2014 – Eight Days

Greetings Dear Reader,

As I ponder Holy Week this year I am focused on the actual events and not traditions or practices.  Each day there are activities that are significant to the week and I want to learn from them so that I may be more faithful.

We celebrate today as Palm Sunday.  Jesus rides into Jerusalem celebrated as the Messiah.  Do I we really see Christ in this light?  Christ is the King.  The crowd that celebrated him was right. 

The sadness in the joy is that the thousands who celebrate him will turn on him.  Not all will abandon the belief that he is King.  Enough will to allow the crowd to call for his death in a just a few days.

I celebrate the King in my heart today.  I am also aware that I too fail to remember that Jesus is King.  At times I too forget who it is I follow.  The King of the universe rides into Jerusalem on a donkey.  He makes the entrance of a King knowing he will die between thieves.  He does it so that I can be given the chance to follow him.

There is no greater love than this.  There is nothing more compelling to me.  This is enough for me to give my all.  Still I fall and fail but it is this King who helps me rise and continue to follow.

Ride on to Die – Michael Card

Seems the sorrow untold, as you look down the road

At the clamoring crowd drawing near

Feel the heat of the day, as you look down the way

Hear the shouts of Hosanna the King

Oh, daughter of Zion your time's drawing near

Don't forsake Him, oh don't pass it by

On the foal of a donkey as the prophets had said

Passing by you, He rides on to die

Come now little foal, though you’re not very old

Come and bear your first burden bravely

Walk so softly upon all the coats and the palms

Bare the One on your back oh so gently

Midst the shouting so loud and the joy of the crowd

There is One who is riding in silence

For He knows the ones here will be fleeing in fear

When their shepherd is taken away

Oh, daughter of Zion your time's drawing near

Don't forsake Him, oh don't pass it by

On the foal of a donkey as the prophets had said

Passing by you, He rides on to die

Soon the thorn cursed ground will bring forth a crown

And this Jesus will seem to be beaten

But He'll conquer alone both the shroud and the stone

And the prophesies will be completed

Oh, daughter of Zion your time's drawing near

Don't forsake Him, oh don't pass it by

On the foal of a donkey as the prophets had said

Passing by you, He rides on to die

On the foal of a donkey as the prophets had said

Passing by you He rides on to die

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."