Who Is This? Jesus Our King

Palm Sunday is tied to the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. This entry is a proclamation of Jesus being the divine, righteous, good King that the people need and that we need. When we think about our daily lives, what I would call an “ordinary Monday,” do we take time to stop and remember that Jesus is King? Oftentimes through the course of an ordinary Monday we don’t think about Jesus being our Divine King, or that he is our Righteous King, because we see the ordinary Monday as just that, ordinary. What if we thought to remind ourselves that it is Jesus who has placed us where we are and with the people, who may annoy or frustrate us, so that we can experience more of his glorious grace? What if we parented in such a way of not leaning on our own righteousness but on the righteousness of Christ? That when we engage our child, our student, our grown children, our grandchildren, we don’t try to impose our own righteousness on them but instead point them, walk with them, or run them to Jesus. When brokenness arises in us, or when we are made aware of the areas of brokenness in us, instead of running from Jesus thinking you have to clean yourself up, rather we remind ourselves of our good King Jesus. Letting Jesus into your brokenness and letting him clean you up. We have a King in Jesus who is divine, righteous, and good. Let’s run to that King.