The Triumphant Entry

And they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and He sat on it. And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Mark 11:6-8

A big moment in the ministry of Jesus begins with this colt. And things have gone just as our Lord said it would for the two disciples fetching the colt. Jerusalem has been prepared and stands ready to receive her king, or so it seems. Clothes and tree branches are spread on the road before Him. People shout out the verses foretold from the prophets. Surely this is how the Messiah will make everything right in the city and Israel will soon be great again. A great silence falls over us, broken only by a slow, steady drip of water into a pool. This was the same crowd who would soon shout to Pilate, "Crucify Him, crucify Him!" Within a week? What happened? Yes, reading the gospel accounts of that week, it is difficult for us to place the same people at either end of it. But that is how quickly hardened hearts can turn on their Savior.

Repentance or rejection, it seems like eternity should not be so quickly decided. Yet, it often is.

Bucky