By Gobel Brockman
Imagine it's your last week on Earth. Now imagine that you know it will be filled with confrontation, rejection, betrayal, physical pain, and ultimately, death. Now imagine that your Heavenly Father not only knows this beforehand, but it's actually his will for your last week. How would you handle that? How would I handle that?
Welcome to Palm Sunday.
Jesus entered Jerusalem knowing what lied ahead of Him. He knew it when He opened blinded eyes, healed lepers, raised the dead, and gave hope to the rejected. He knew when He called out the Pharisees for their hypocrisy they would soon get their 'revenge'. And He never ran from it, He embraced it. Why? The Scripture says that "...for the joy that was before Him He endured the cross..." What joy could there be in that? Knowing that humanity could now be saved? I'm sure of that. But I think the bigger reason was just doing His Father's will. What a lesson for us. How often do we bemoan our 'fate', not realizing the joy that is before us in our Father's will. Even when we know in the 'here & now' it will be difficult, may we recognize it's for a bigger purpose.
Thank God Jesus did.
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