Lord's Day Devotion - The Salvation Story - (Palm Sunday 2026)

 

Riding on a donkey in Bible times signified a person was arriving in peace, to serve and was coming in humility.  Jesus embodied all of these.

As Jesus rode,

 "already on the way down from the Mount of Olives,"

 and entering the city of Jerusalem, a multitude declared in a loud voice,

"Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!  Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" (vs38).

Jesus came in peace, bringing the peace and glory of heaven with Him.  The people were praising and rejoicing this day.  Little did they also know that Jesus' coming in the capacity to serve as their Savior, meant His cruel death upon the cross by week's end.  The loud voices then would be stark and ugly, shouting,

"Crucify Him!"

Triumph and tragedy rolled into that donkey ride.  Yet in His humility, Jesus took all of this upon Himself in quiet submission to His Father, on mankind's behalf.

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not persih but have everlasting life" (John 3:16 KJV).

One of the most familiar verses of the whole Bible and in a nutshell, tells the whole scope of the salvation story.  God's love being the motivating force behind His giving the most precious and perfect gift of all time and eternity.

Dwell on that a while.

In the stillness, in the quiet, out of the depths of our souls, does gratitude begin to trickle?  Is it beginning to run, bubbling like a cheerful, rockbed stream?  Is it pouring into a river wide?

Let us be glad and rejoice, even in a loud voice, sincerely praising our Savior, all the day long, surely, but all week too.

Those who believe, those who have believed, won't perish eternally in unrepentant sinners' Hell but have everlasting life.  

All glory be to God!

Sing your Savior's praises Christians, as you reach for the broken bread and drink from the wine cup this Lord's Day.  In Him is our salvation because God loved us.

                                               ~  ERC  March 2026  ~

Based on Luke 19:28-44 ESV.

Sing, Praise him, All Ye Little Children, along with Divine Hymns.