Good Morning, God
Lord, not many secular headlines will be about this week, but we who are religious will be considering you especially this week. We will imagine we are walking with your Son, Jesus, as he makes his way through Jerusalem to Golgotha and his cross. We have dubbed this week “Holy Week”, God, and we hope you will appreciate this.
Yesterday, Lord, in a lot of your churches we celebrated in one of two ways. Either we celebrated with a Palm Sunday Parade or a Passion Sunday Prelude. If it was Palm Sunday, we celebrated Jesus being hailed as the one who came “in the name of the Lord”. We sang “Hosannas” and were excited that there were crowds lining the streets of Jerusalem as Jesus and his disciples came into town.
If we thought of yesterday as Passion Sunday, we weren’t celebrating, but were looking ahead to Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples, his trial, his persecution, his crucifixion.
Of course, we also know what is at the end of both of these thoughts: The resurrection of Jesus next Sunday, the most important day on the church calendar and for our souls.
Lord, let us be mindful of what this week means to your believers, walk with Jesus each day and look forward to the joy of next Sunday.
In Jesus' name, Amen
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