1“I thank you, Lord, and with all the passion of my heart I worship you in the presence of angels! Heaven’s mighty ones will hear my voice as I sing my loving praise to you. 2 I bow down before your divine presence and bring you my deepest worship as I experience your tender love and your living truth. For your Word and the fame of your name have been magnified above all else! 3 At the very moment I called out to you, you answered me! You strengthened me deep within my soul and breathed fresh courage into me. 4 One day all the kings of the earth will rise to give you thanks when they hear the living words that I have heard you speak.” Psalm 138:1-4 MSG
It is interesting to me that Jesus’s triumphant entry into what we now know as Holy Week was in actuality to battle for our lives. While the crowds shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”,with their palm branches waving in the air. But we would soon learn that this king was not to sit on an earthly throne but would soon be back on his heavenly throne to prepare a place for his lost beloved. But first, He had to win a battle on our behalf. A battle for the very eternal souls he created. The ones he created for eternal fellowship and relationship with him. Jesus knew what he needed to do. He knew why he came. He knew what the next 7 days were leading to. Three days in the grave is nothing to him to save his beloved. Though he had great joy to lay down his life for all of creation, he knew this earthly body would endure a level of pain that would be unimaginable to the average person. But for God, it was necessary. It was necessary for us to see we cannot endure the pains, trials, tragedies and traumas of this world without him. We needed to see that even the grave could not hold him down. That the uncreated one who created us was the only one qualified to win this battle.
When you read the psalm above from David, know that though he never walked with Jesus himself, he worshiped God like he already witnessed the day that Jesus, the Messiah, Yeshua would defeat his enemies. Oh, to have gratitude like that before it happens. Imagine the battles we would move out of the way of and watch our Jesus conquer them. Imagine trusting God like that before those prophecies of the Messiah were fulfilled. I want that kind of gratitude, don’t you?
When things are not looking so good. When you don’t know what to do or pray or say. That is when we gaze into the eyes of Jesus entering his battle on our behalf to a crowd that appeared to love him at first, but by the end of the week would go from shouting, “Hosannah in the highest!” waving their palm branches, yet in just a blink of an eye, shaking their fists at him, screaming, “Crucify him!”.
We still do that to him today. When things are going well, we praise him, when things do not go our way, we curse and blame him for the devil’s work. Yet, Jesus battles on for us, despite us.
Lord I pray we trust him in the battle, that we praise him through the battle and that we trust him with more battles. More important than that is that we accept the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.
“5 They too will sing of your wonderful ways, for your ineffable glory is great! 6 For though you are lofty and exalted, you stoop to embrace the lowly. Yet you keep your distance from those filled with pride. 7 By your mighty power I can walk through any devastation, and you will keep me alive, reviving me. Your power set me free from the hatred of my enemies. 8 You keep every promise you’ve ever made to me! Since your love for me is constant and endless, I ask you, Lord, to finish every good thing that you’ve begun in me!”— Psalms 138:5-8 TPT
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From the Depths of Kell 