Beloved : The World - Palm Sunday - John 12:12-19

It's easy to be drawn towards the glorious and attractive things in this world. It's easy to look at spectacles, brilliant displays, and amazing things, and turn away from the ordinary, normal, and mundane. The triumphal entry seems triumphant and glorious! Yet, all those who praised him would soon betray Jesus. We are often more concerned about the world, and what is great in the world, rather than what is glorious and great in the eyes of God. Not spectacle, but sincere faith in Jesus. Jesus' true glory is not the glory of the world. It's the glory of humility, weakness, abandonment, and suffering on the cross. We are not to look to the glory of this world, but to the true glory of our meek and humble savior who comes not to take the kingdom, but to be taken to death. The amazing actions he once did, are nothing, compared to the glory of what Jesus was coming and going to do! In this world, we do not follow the things that are glorious to the world, but we follow Jesus, to the cross, where we see his true glory.