If God gives you tomorrow,
He will also give you what tomorrow
requires
[needs]
[necessitates]
[demands]
“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now,
and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow.
God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”
Matt 6:34 The Message
It’s Palm Sunday again today and this is the chorus that is on repeat in my heart. I’m not even reading the Holy Week scriptures right now – I’ve merely gotten to Matthew 6 where Jesus is sharing the beatitudes without holding back to a crowd that is hungry.
And yet, Palm Sunday existed even then.
It already found its way into His history on earth.
The same people that would wear out their flip flops following Him around the countryside, would be the same people being dragged along by the crowds three years later, their vote changed.
Even then it didn’t keep Him from helping them, healing them, consoling them, teaching them.
Jesus did not deviate one iota from His mission on earth.
Not when the crowds were cheering Him on, and not when they wanted Him dead.
I think we have to take criticism with a bit of salt, but praise with even more! For we can be so easily swayed by public opinion. Sometimes it only affects our daily joy, but sometimes it has the ability to radically influence our life’s journey. Away from the treasure that was purposely ours to find.
“As He made His entrance into Jerusalem, the whole city was shaken.
Unnerved, people were asking: ‘What’s going on here? Who is this?’”
Matthew 21:10 The Message
Mark remembers it differently.
“He entered Jerusalem, then entered the Temple.
He looked around.
Taking it all in.”
Mark 11:11 The Message
Two of Jesus’ closest friends. Two vastly different memories.
One God for both.
I don’t have to fit my 70 + something kilos into my neighbours’ cookie cutter pattern.
I don’t have to fill my diary with mini missions that were meant for you (but not for me).
I don’t have to mark myself down for milestones that I was never meant to reach.
His plan for me is mine.
His plan for you is yours.
What the world thinks of it is really negligibly small.
Your inspiration for the week: This is the day
