“Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted,
Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!”
Mark 11:9,10

Those who were Jesus' followers
knew His identity the day He entered Jerusalem on the back of a colt.
They shouted “Hosanna!”, a Hebrew expression that means “Save now!”
Their anticipations about His kingdom were based upon what they knew.
They expected this King to set up His kingdom as any other king.
What He had shared with His disciples about His impending death
seemed to have been forgotten.
They appealed to Him: Hosanna!
And save He would – but not in the way they were envisioning.

How often we expect God to speak powerfully,
to show His strength and might in some dramatic way,
and He enters our world in more humble, quiet ways,
defying our limited expectations
to show us the greater work of sacrificial love,
His death,
the sacrificing of His will so that whosoever will may be saved.

Twila Charles Leichty - L2