SCC Reflection #160
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SADDLEBACK COVENANT
C H U R C H
March 29, 2023
Dear SCC & Friends,
Hosanna! ~John 12:13
Reflection #160
I did my best, and God did the rest. ~Hattie McDaniel~ This week is Palm Sunday in which we celebrate Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. It is the beginning of Holy Week, and what a week it was. We will never know this side of heaven what terrible struggles took place in the spiritual world between Palm Sunday and Easter morning. ~Rodney Buchanan~ So many times Jesus had told His disciples, “My time has not yet come.” …but now His time had come… This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. ~Ps. 118:24 Today is the day to openly declare the Messiah is here. Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King comes sitting on a donkey’s colt. ~Jn 12:15 The King is coming, the people are praising and the Pharisees are hatching a plot. So from that day on they planned together to kill Him. ~Jn. 11:53 …They had to stop Him… You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him. ~Jn. 12:19 …Selah…
Hosanna is derived from two Hebrew words – Yasha, which means “to save and deliver” and Anna, which means “please, I beseech”… And many spread their garments in the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields. And those who went before, and those who followed after, were crying out, Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest!” ~Mk. 11-7-10 When Jesus rode into Jerusalem, He was greeted with praise and the waving of palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but … no … he had come to change them, and that led to things turning bad. ~Keillor~ Five days later on Good Friday, “Hosanna” was replaced by “Crucify Him!” What is good about Good Friday? Why isn’t it called Bad Friday on Good Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal. ~Randy Alcorn~ God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. ~1 Jn. 5:11 …Amen…
Keep up the good work!
Kevin