Let's Wave the Palms!!

I love this beautiful time of the year!!  When I wake up in the mornings, the birds are singing to me -- the grass is a beautiful green, and some flowers are blooming!  My heart tells me we must be getting ready, once again, to contemplate and relive the last days of Jesus' earthly ministry, culminating in His glorious Resurrection!!

Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, and I think how thrilling it would be to have been among the crowd that day in Jerusalem when they heard that Jesus was coming!  I would have wanted to be among the ones waving Palm branches and shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord."

But, then ---  I wonder --- would I have been one of those in the crowd that day in Jerusalem who would soon be screaming with the chief priests and scribes, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him."?
I wasn't in the crowd that day, but I am in the crowd today who plan to be waving Palm branches at church in the morning, along with my church family, as we sing --- "....There'll be singing, there'll be shouting when the saints come marching home, in Jerusalem, in Jerusalem; Waving palms with loud hosannas as the King shall take His throne, in the new Jerusalem."

Perhaps you don't really feel like waving a Palm branch tomorrow because of various circumstances in your life -- I trust the words of this blessed old song by an anonymous author will so encourage you that you can hardly wait to get to church and wave your Palm of Victory!!

     "I saw a blood-washed pilgrim, a sinner saved by grace, upon the King's great highway with peaceful, shining face;  temptations sore beset him, but nothing could affright;  He said, 'The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light.'
      I saw him in the furnace; he doubted not, nor feared, and in the flames beside him the Son of God appeared; Tho' seven times 'twas heated with all the tempter's might, he said, 'The yoke is easy, the burden it is light.'
     Mid storms, and clouds, and trials, in prison, at the stake, he leaped for joy, rejoicing, 'twas all for Jesus' sake; that God should count him worthy, was such supreme delight, he cried, 'The yoke is easy, the burden is so light.'
     I saw him overcoming, thro' all the swelling strife, until he crossed the threshold of God's Eternal Life; the Crown, the Throne, the Sceptre, the Name, the Stone so White, were his, who found, in Jesus, the yoke and burden light.
     Then Palms of Victory, Crowns of Glory, Palms of Victory I shall wear."