Triple C News - March 27, 2021
Hey, everyone!
Hope you’re having an awesome, praise-filled day and a heart-full of hope because…it’s almost Palm Sunday! It’s almost Easter Sunday! It’s the season of hope! Even with the world-wide global pandemic with all the hopelessness of it all..
It’s hope season!
Speaking of hope…
I heard a leading…and very medically conservative…epidemiologist, Dr Ashish Jha, dean at Brown University School of Public Health, say on the Today Show this week that we need to not “spike the ball on the five yard line” when we’re almost in the end-zone, coronavirusly speaking. We need to keep “masking up, backing up, washing up”.
“How long till we’re in the end-zone?” Savannah asked.
“I believe when everyone who is vulnerable health-wise is vaccinated, that’s the end-zone to me.” Dr Jha replied.
“When will that be?”
“I think in about four weeks.”
This was Monday!!
This means it may not be long before we’re back up the hill at 100 Ogden on Sundays!!
Get the shot as soon as you can, folks!! Maybe we’ll meet at the park in April and then...in May…or mid-May…who knows??
(And for those who’ve asked, sure we can meet down at the park sometimes when this is all over, just to remember the fun we had!)
I love Palm Sunday! Just the thought of soooo many people yelling!…praising!...”hosanna-ing”! All because they wanted Jesus to be their King! And they wanted Him to rule over them! I wonder what it must have been like on that day!
It didn’t last very long, though.
By the end of the week, so many of them…so many of the same ones…were yelling, “We don’t want Him any more! No! We don’t want You any more!”
One of the gladdest days in the history of the world and the saddest day of all time only had five days between them.
Y’know, I think that’s why being patient and content is so vital all the time, and especially now! Being discontent and impatient with how it is instead of having that peace, patience and contentment the Book talks about so much, can quickly turn from impatience with things to impatience with Him!
Didn’t take long for them to switch from saying, “Yay!” to saying, “Boo!!”
That’s why my hero on Palm Sunday week was…
the donkey!
Remember him?
“They went and found a donkey colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway…they untied it… When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, "Hosanna!” (Mark 11)
Poor li’l dude! Tied up…stuck…roped to a door!
Until Jesus wanted him!
They untied him!
He was free!
Even with Jesus sitting on him!
Being sat on had never happened to him before and usually they’re not too happy about it! But he didn’t care! It was because of Jesus that he was untied and free!
“He can ride on me anywhere! I’ll carry Him all day!”
In Job, God said, "Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied his ropes? I gave him the wasteland as his home, the salt flats as his habitat. He laughs at the commotion in the town…” (39.5-7)
That donkey doesn’t care where he lives! Even if home’s in the salt flats! He’s content no matter what! He laughs all day! Even if everyone else is running around stressed out in the town, he’s just happy!
He’s just happy God let him be free!
Because of the King, you’re free!
You’re not tied up or tied down, no matter where He has you!
Even if you feel “sat on”!
Kick up your heels!
Or your hooves!
Make that donkey your hero!
Try to be like a donkey today!
It’s harder than you think!