Live to Love Scripture Encouragement John 12.16

John 12:16 These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him. So often this is the case. Things happen in our lives that we don’t understand until we see Jesus glorified in and through them. Jesus mounting a donkey to ride into Jerusalem this one time, of all the times He had entered that city, didn’t strike them as all that incredible. However, it was! Think about it. Because God had spoken it through Zechariah centuries before, the event was God’s undeniable testimony glorifying His Son, Jesus Christ, as the anointed Messiah and promised King. John’s words, “Fear not,” could not be more appropriate and accurate considering the context of Zachariah’s prophecy where he promised to “camp around My house,” and “no oppressor will pass over them anymore,” and the “chariot” and “bow of war will be cut off.” Zechariah penned, “Rejoice greatly.” John wrote, “Fear not.” Are they not both sides of the same coin? Let us fear not and rejoice greatly, for now, we have seen Jesus glorified.