Palm Sunday is here!
An Easter card I designed this year had a simple message on the back. It said, "He came. He healed. He comforted. He loved. He suffered. He died. The story didn't end there for HE arose and brought salvation for us all! Hallelujah!
I was thinking about how the Bible doesn't document Jesus' life between the time of his being found in the temple at age 12 until his baptizing by John when he was roughly thirty years old. I would imagine that during those unspoken-about years, he lived what we call a fairly normal life for that day and time. I often wonder how it would have been to have lived during the same time as Jesus. Today it hit me that I have experienced all these things I wrote about on my Easter card.
He came.....I experience his birth every Christmas and never forget the REAL meaning of that season.
He healed....Many times in my life I have felt his healing of my body and my mind and even my Spirit.
He comforted....Can I even number the times my spirit has been sad and my heart weary? Times when I had no answers for troubles of magnitude.....yes, He allows me time after time to just lay my head over in his lap and be comforted.
He loved....I see and feel his love in his creation, in his gifts to me in the form of family and friends, and his blessings to me that are too many to count.
He suffered....Oh how my heart hurts when I read of what He went through for my sins.
He died....And that horrible death on the cross that had to be....HIS Father's plan.
But oh so thankfully, He did not stay in that borrowed tomb but arose on that third day, just as He said. And because I believe ALL of it, I rejoice because salvation in Him is MINE!
On this Palm Sunday, I offer my "palms" of praise to HIM for all HE is! Hosannah!
An Easter card I designed this year had a simple message on the back. It said, "He came. He healed. He comforted. He loved. He suffered. He died. The story didn't end there for HE arose and brought salvation for us all! Hallelujah!
I was thinking about how the Bible doesn't document Jesus' life between the time of his being found in the temple at age 12 until his baptizing by John when he was roughly thirty years old. I would imagine that during those unspoken-about years, he lived what we call a fairly normal life for that day and time. I often wonder how it would have been to have lived during the same time as Jesus. Today it hit me that I have experienced all these things I wrote about on my Easter card.
He came.....I experience his birth every Christmas and never forget the REAL meaning of that season.
He healed....Many times in my life I have felt his healing of my body and my mind and even my Spirit.
He comforted....Can I even number the times my spirit has been sad and my heart weary? Times when I had no answers for troubles of magnitude.....yes, He allows me time after time to just lay my head over in his lap and be comforted.
He loved....I see and feel his love in his creation, in his gifts to me in the form of family and friends, and his blessings to me that are too many to count.
He suffered....Oh how my heart hurts when I read of what He went through for my sins.
He died....And that horrible death on the cross that had to be....HIS Father's plan.
But oh so thankfully, He did not stay in that borrowed tomb but arose on that third day, just as He said. And because I believe ALL of it, I rejoice because salvation in Him is MINE!
On this Palm Sunday, I offer my "palms" of praise to HIM for all HE is! Hosannah!
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