All-Ages Palm Sunday Service

If we sit up and take notice of Jesus’ message in this Palm Sunday procession, we receive a very clear message, that there are more, and even greater powers than the military ones that put on displays like this. Jesus demonstrated that a weaponless colt-riding rabbi surrounded by palm-waving people had more power than Pilate and Herod and all of the priests who clung to power in Jerusalem during this time. Courage is a gift from God. It doesn’t come passively, it is a choice we make. We gulp down our fear, and we step forward or sit upright, and we speak. This story reminds us that we follow one who kept his upright posture even while committing an act of political satire that likely would contribute to his later torture and death. If Jesus didn’t sit upright and boldly, I don’t think those “powers that be” themselves would have sat up to notice.