DO WE KNOW HOW TO SERVE THE KING?

Most Christian congregations following a “church calendar” like celebrating the Easter festival, conducted services this past weekend about Palm Sunday. Publishers of Bibles using subtitles refer to this day occurring a week before Jesus’ crucifixion as The Triumphal Entry.

Luke’s account is the single Gospel continuing:

41. As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42. and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you." (emphasis added).

I hope to recognize God’s coming to me every moment the Holy Spirit is directing me. Do we as siblings in Christ recognize God’s direction? What are the consequences if we are not individually and corporately focusing on God’s will? How satisfied are we with what Jesus said the day after His entry into Jerusalem:

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (emphasis added).
Mark 11:24

All but Luke’s Gospel quotes exactly from Psalm 118:26 which is what the people shouted when Jesus entered Jerusalem:

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD.

Historians guess this Psalm was recorded around when the Isrealites were exiled but had written permission to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. What exactly I am building here on earth and what is my purpose? How do I go about learning to serve a King? What is it that I want from Jesus?

A phrase from the mission statement of Youth for Christ is “to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus.” Paragraph five of Youth for Christ’s statement of faith says:

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

Let us continually recognize the Holy Spirit will teach us to better make Jesus our King as we serve together in His Kingdom.