PJP2 PROLOG 160320 PROLOG Focus -

Psalm 67:5 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Let the peoples Praise You, O God; Let All the peoples Praise You!"....

PJP2 PROLOG POST 160320 - John 12:12-19 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus Was Coming to Jerusalem.  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, 'Hosanna! Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Name of The Lord, Even The King of Israel!'  And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is Written, 'Fear Not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King Is Coming, Sitting on a donkey's colt!'  His disciples Did Not Understand These Things at first, BUT When Jesus Was Glorified, THEN they Remembered That These Things Had Been Written About Him AND Had Been Done To Him.  The crowd that had been With Him When He Called Lazarus Out of the tomb And Raised him From the dead Continued To Bear Witness.  The Reason Why the crowd Went To Meet Him Was That they Heard He Had Done This Sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing.  Look, the world has Gone After Him.'”....

In just six short days our Lord Jesus will go from being a Celebrity and Worshipped, to a 'criminal' and washed-up.

Do we still do the very same yet today?  I am confident I have.  I am certain that when The Lord's Work is Positive and All's going 'gang-buster' Good in my Life...Our Lord has Called Forth Lazarus....- I am All Over cutting down palm branches and waving them around shouting, "Hooah!  Hosanna!!"  Yet, when the storm(s) of Life roll in, and my Ship of Life is being bobbed around like a cork (and all because instead of trimming the sails, I hoisted them in arrogance saying, "Bring It!"), my attitude is perhaps not one of Worship and Praise.

BUT Praise God, our Lord Jesus, The King of kings, calmly shares with us, "Do Not be afraid.  It Is I!"  

Thus my Prayer for us today, on this Palm Sunday 2016, would be - O Lord Jesus, Thank You for Your Saving and Amazing Grace.  Holy Spirit, Ever Open our Inner Eyes, especially when we are blinded by the 'glitz and glamor' of the Event, missing the Truth of Your Point to us that our King of kings first comes to us Humbly and Unassuming.  Father God, Teach us that Only After the Grain of Wheat is Planted, Dies to self and Rises Again from The Tomb By Your Power.... Then and Only Then do we Begin To Bear Fruit for You Through You.  We Lift Up our Prayers, Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name....Amen/Amen....jaj