Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
~ Martin Luther ~
Then the Pharisees said to each other, "There's nothing we can do. Look, everyone has gone after Him!" (John 12:19).
Insight into human nature and the irony of history are the essential ingredients of a good story. We see it in movies, novels and plays. The Pharisees feared that if the great number of people who were ready to crown Jesus as King, succeeded in doing so, the priests would lose their authority and power, because the Romans would react with strict laws. They simply couldn't understand that this was the last thing on Jesus' mind. But the crowds that welcomed Him were just as wrong.
He had not come to be their type of king either. John said, "He came to His own people, and even they rejected Him" (John 1:11). Even though the multitudes honored Him on Palm Sunday, they had still not put their trust in Him as Lord and Savior. And the Pharisees believed that the whole world (that He had come to save) was starting to follow Him.
The world belongs to Him - there is no doubt about that! It is His because He died on the cross to bring about salvation. It is so because He refused to become the political figure created by the wishful thinking of the crowds. It is so because He reigns in glory at the right hand of the Father. The Word of truth is spreading slowly but surely all over the world. The seed that He sowed in the hearts and lives of people grows across the entire world.
Pray faithfully that His cause will prosper and that more people will acknowledge Him and crown Him as their King.
We acknowledge You, Lord Jesus, as King in the hearts of people all over the world. Amen.
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