Although I have read the story of Triumphal Entry of Christ in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday hundreds of times, I am still amazed by the ambiguity of the crowd who met Him that day. With one breath they welcome Him as the King of the Jews and in a few hours they are calling for His crucifixion.

But in retrospect I should not be surprised. In like manner today many who are professing Christians find themselves praising God one day and the next day they are living like practicing athiests (you know ... living as though God doesn't exist).

With the certainty of death facing each one of us, it would be a revolutionary level of commitment on the part of you and me as Christians to say to God: "Lord, I know I have messed up in the past. And for that I am sorry. From this day forward I want to serve you with reckless abandon. I take seriously my responsibility to live my faith in such a way that those who watch will come to understand that there is no reason for my behavior except that YOU are living through me." I don't know about you, but that seems like a pretty gutsy move. Are you up to it? Join me ... let's do it together!

 


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