Hosanna!

For Sunday, April 10, 2022

Matthew 21:9 NIV: “The crowds that went ahead of Jesus and those that followed shouted, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’ ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’”

Jesus had been ministering on earth for three years, and word had gotten around about all the healings. Jesus was known as a fair person, an honest person, but mostly as a worker of miracles. Even people who didn’t know he was the Son of God thought he was an important prophet, certainly sent from heaven. In Jesus, they found hope!

And today Jesus is making his Triumphal Entry into the Holy City, riding on a borrowed donkey. It was like a parade! People lined the streets, laying palm branches and bright cloth in the street ahead of their Savior. Everyone called him ‘blessed,’ and shouted, “Hosanna,” which means save us, save us now!

In our churches, we celebrate this day as Palm Sunday. We too should shout out, “Hosanna! Save us, save us now!”

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406