On this Palm Sunday, we commemorate Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
He comes as a king to take the throne of David. But he is no earthly king. He does not enter on a muscular steed, but on a lowly donkey. It is not a well equipped army that escorts him through the gates of the royal city but a band of peasants. And he does not enter the city to take it by force but to surrender himself to a sentence of death.
Jesus is not at all what we would expect from someone who claims to be the Son of God and Savior of the World.
If we are to be his followers then we cannot live only for our own comfort and well-being but for his glory.
But if we do take up our cross and follow him, we will know a joy and a peace which no one can ever take from us. And we will have treasure in heaven more glorious than we could ever hope for or imagine.
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