PrayerBits
A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church
Tuesday
Scripture lesson: John 12:12-16 Palm Sunday
Time to reflect: The Donkey business is a fulfilling of Zechariah 9:9. Back then the Donkey wasn't the joke it is in our society. Kings rode on Donkeys. As The Oxford Annotated Bible puts it “Warlike kings rode on horses and in chariots; the king of peace, on a donkey's colt”
Moving through the day: Meditate on the meaning for us that Jesus came as a prince of peace.
The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
"Hosanna!"
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Blessed is the King of Israel!" Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written,
"Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey's colt."
At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.
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