- What are your expectations of Jesus, today?
- Do you have any?
- In these verses we find Jesus descending into town where the multitudes of people were.
- As he arrives, The people shouted Hosanna!
- This was a slogan which meant "Please save us! Give us freedom!"
- They want Jesus to be their Savior, but they want Him to do it their way!
- They are thinking political freedom to meet their short term goals.
- He is thinking spiritual freedom to meet their eternal need.
- They are thinking about the temporary.
- He is thinking about the eternal!
- And if they shout it loud enough and get excited enough then maybe Jesus will join their plan and do what they want.
- The reality is that they totally missed the Savior even though He was right in front of them.
- They could identify Jesus as the Messiah but would not make Him Lord!
- "Lord" means supreme ruler and Master.
- To call Him Lord means that you stop leading and you begin following.
- Lord means, "I will do what you want." And not expect you to do what I want!
- They totally missed the Lord because of their Expectations!
- They Expected Him to do what they wanted.
- They expected Him to come a certain way and do certain things (like overthrow the Roman government), and because of that, they missed Jesus.
- They literally missed Him!
- They missed His purpose.
- They missed His plan.
- They missed His way!
- They missed the One who could set them free and offer them Salvation.
- They missed the One who could bring them Spiritual, emotional, physical and eternal Healing!
- They missed Jesus.
- But I wonder how many times we do the same thing.
- How many time do we look for Him to give us temporary relief for an immediate need and He is thinking on a Greater scale.
- How many times do we look at the "Here and Now" and He is thinking "Eternal"
- We think Physical and He points to the Spiritual.
- Maybe today is a good day to remove your expectations and surrender them to Him.
- How about taking off the limitations that you have placed on Him.
- Maybe, you just let Him be Lord.
- Today would be a great day to surrender your expectations to Him and begin listening to what He has planned for your life.
- Let your expectations simply be What He wants.
- His plan always far exceeds anything that we could plan!
- His way is greater!
- He will lead you down a better path!
- Today, don't just call Him "Lord", make Him Lord!
- Have a great Monday!
"Took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ The King of Israel!” (John 12:13 NKJV)
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