Jesus enters Jerusalem to the shouts of “Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest!” The crowd celebrates all that he has done; all that he has revealed to them. It is a celebration of the hopes of the disciples.
Our expectations run high, too. We know enough of the story to have reason to think that in all this there might be something for us. We are familiar enough with the story to begin to identify the places in our lives where a miracle or a kind word could be experienced.
But such thoughts are about us, and our immediate needs, than about the reasons for Jesus’ arrival. These are the purposes toward which we would see this moving, rather than the purposes God has intended.
In a few short days, God’s way of addressing our need will be fully revealed. Jesus will hang on a cross, die, and then be resurrected. Within seven days, we will know what it is that God intends. Today, we are left with our temptations.
It is his sacrifice which fully reveals Jesus as Messiah. It is his setting aside his own desires and accepting God’s vision which results in the centurion’s acclamation, “Surely this was the Son of God.”
While we might be tempted to use what we know of the story as impetus for a search of what this might mean for us, the events beckon us to lose our self-centeredness. The events of this week remind us that the call of God is a call to realize there are more important things than the immediate desires which we so often accept as substitutes for the marvelous gift of God salvation.
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