ARE WE PALM SUNDAY PEOPLE?
SCRIPTURE
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.
-Philippians 2:5
Jerusalem was crowded with people shouting a hopeful song. Were they celebrating Jesus as one who was like a Messiah, or did they understand that Jesus was the Messiah? Palm Sunday won't answer that question. The answer comes with what they did with their praise on Monday. We know what happened on Monday. They put away their praise palms and returned to life as usual.
Are we Palm Sunday people? Are we content to join the crowd on Sunday and sing our praise, only to turn back to our week without living out the truth we praised?
We must change the story. We must be the same praising people on Monday. We must turn deaf ears to half-truths and twisted arguments. We must raise our voices for Jesus in our family and work relationships. We must take our Sunday praise to the places where people suffer, struggle, protest, and bury dreams. We must see Jesus riding into our days and join the angels who sang at his birth, "Glory in the highest. Peace has come!"
We must live as people whose Sunday praise is as vibrant and magnetic on Monday as it is on Sunday. Our world needs us to be more than Palm Sunday people. Let's surprise them and live our praise the rest of the week.
BURNING QUESTIONS
1. Whom would you have been in the Palm Sunday gathering, and why would you have joined the parade?
2. What difference does Sunday praise make on your Monday morning?
AFFIRMATION
I have every reason to join the praise of Palm Sunday and even more reasons to keep living it on Monday!
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Worthy Christ, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart Lead me to keep praising who you are and what you have done.
SCRIPTURE
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.
-Philippians 2:5
Jerusalem was crowded with people shouting a hopeful song. Were they celebrating Jesus as one who was like a Messiah, or did they understand that Jesus was the Messiah? Palm Sunday won't answer that question. The answer comes with what they did with their praise on Monday. We know what happened on Monday. They put away their praise palms and returned to life as usual.
Are we Palm Sunday people? Are we content to join the crowd on Sunday and sing our praise, only to turn back to our week without living out the truth we praised?
We must change the story. We must be the same praising people on Monday. We must turn deaf ears to half-truths and twisted arguments. We must raise our voices for Jesus in our family and work relationships. We must take our Sunday praise to the places where people suffer, struggle, protest, and bury dreams. We must see Jesus riding into our days and join the angels who sang at his birth, "Glory in the highest. Peace has come!"
We must live as people whose Sunday praise is as vibrant and magnetic on Monday as it is on Sunday. Our world needs us to be more than Palm Sunday people. Let's surprise them and live our praise the rest of the week.
BURNING QUESTIONS
1. Whom would you have been in the Palm Sunday gathering, and why would you have joined the parade?
2. What difference does Sunday praise make on your Monday morning?
AFFIRMATION
I have every reason to join the praise of Palm Sunday and even more reasons to keep living it on Monday!
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Worthy Christ, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart Lead me to keep praising who you are and what you have done.
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