Palm Sunday!

This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday!  How thrilling it must have been to be among the crowd that day in Jerusalem when they heard that Jesus was coming!  I wonder if they were thinking the anticipated King would be riding on a magnificent white horse!!  But, no, He comes riding on a colt---not high and mighty, but meek and lowly.
The Bible records in the 11th chapter of Mark's gospel that Jesus sent two of His disciples into the village to bring a colt that no man had sat upon:
     "And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on Him; and He sat upon him.
And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.  And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.  Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord:  Hosanna in the highest."
 I wasn't in the crowd that day so long ago --- and, sadly, I cannot be in the crowd of worshipers today; but on this Palm Sunday I plan on being in my home --- waving a little branch of some kind and singing from my heart, "In the New Jerusalem"---

     "When the toils of life are over and we lay our armor down,
And we bid farewell to earth with all its cares,
      We shall meet and greet our loved ones, and our Christ we then shall crown
In the new Jerusalem.
   
      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!"

Then I look forward to hearing the special Palm Sunday message from my pastor before I close my service by singing -- "Then palms of victory, crowns of glory, Palms of victory I shall wear."