I have a special affinity for Palm Sunday.  For ten years I told the story of Easter through the eggs in a Story Basket to every little kid who would come and hunt them. This Palm Sunday you’re it.  No little kids came hunting this year and I still love to tell this story.

They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it.                                                                                                Luke 19:35

If we are to accept the great gift that Christ endured this tragic week in history to secure for us, it must begin with a choice to “put Him on it,” put Him in His rightful place on the colts of our lives, the thrones of our hearts.

Our Jesus was far from feeble, but He realized the importance from the outset of letting His children choose to call Him King.

And some did, they put Him on His trusty stead, and let Him run with their very lives.

“I tell you,”  He replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”                                                                                                            Luke 19:40

Is God Dead as some proclaim?  If we were ever to come to a point when all mankind believed such drivel, the whole world would be immediately set right again as the rocks cried out that which we were too foolish to profess ourselves! My God Lives and reigns supreme over His creation! If not one responded in love and obedience to His offer, He would not go quietly into the good night.  His praises would be heard around the world as cries of nature expressing the greatness of our God.

As He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it.                                                                                                                   Luke 19:41

Some did put Him where He belonged, but the idea of some not choosing so wisely brought Him to tears.

He rejoices at the turning of every heart to His love.  But He is never content with your one heart coming home.  He longs for others who still wander outside the fold.

He has a plan to bring them in.  And you’re it.

He is broken over those who are lost.  Are you?  He fulfilled every part on the drama set before Him.  Have you?  Will you?  This is not a one Man show.  This isn’t a one-act play.  This one plays on for millenia.  It’s players are many and storied and valuable and necessary to the plot line.  And they are you and me.

How do we know our role?  How do we faithfully “put Him on it” day after day?

The leaders among the people were trying to kill Him.  Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on His words.                                                                                                                               Luke 19:48

When there are those–including yourself–who attempt to kill the flame of His love for you, who attempt to kill the bonfire of passion for Him in your life, hang on His words.

Those who desire to quiet and kill Him and those whose aim is to deter you, hang on His words and hear their voices fade.  Tune your ear to His voice, His word, and “the things of this earth will grow strangely dim.”  Hang on His words.  Quiet the killers.  Sing with the rocks.

Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!                                                                                                                                Luke 19:38