"Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is coming, Sitting on a donkey's colt." (John 12:15)
- Public opinion changes very quickly.
- When Jesus entered Jerusalem for the Passover feast, He was welcomed by crowds cheering to have Him made king.
- But by the end of the week, the crowds were demanding that He be crucified.
- Some of us are like those fickle crowds.
- We love to cheer for a team that is winning.
- But our interest wanes when they start losing.
- We love to be part of a movement that is new and exciting,
- But when the energy moves to other things, we are ready to move on.
- We love to follow Jesus when He is doing the impossible.
- But we slink away when He expects us to do something difficult.
- It is exciting to follow Jesus when we can do it as part of the crowd.
- It is easy to trust Him when He outsmarts the smart people and outmaneuvers the people in power.
- But when He begins to talk about suffering and sacrifice and death, we hesitate.
- We like to think that we can follow Jesus all the way to the cross.
- But we have our doubts.
- If we cannot speak up for Him in places where it is safe, what makes us think that we can do so in a crowd of His opponents?
- How thankful we are to know that Jesus died for fickle followers like us.
- Now we can become His devoted followers.
- May our devotion to Jesus continue to grow every day.
- Our Lord Jesus Christ deserves full-time followers.
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