ETERNITY COME TO CALL

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No one, except the Pharisees and Saducees, had a clue that Golgotha just outside the walls of Jerusalem was where Jesus was truly headed.

Not to Rome to broker and bargain as a King with Tiberius, but rather to a cross with thieves.

Not to live a lifetime gaining more and more land beneath His reign, but to a small patch of borrowed land called a tomb. “My kingdom is not of this world,” he would tell Pilate. But at that moment no one believed or accepted or understood these words. No one could have foreseen His Resurrection or Ascension.

What we are talking about is CG and CK not EG and EK - Cosmic Glory and Cosmic Kingship rather than Earthly Glory and Earthly Kingship. Jesus wasn’t into all of this for the short haul. He was into it for eternity and reaching out for you and me to go along with Him on the ride.

This was a new concept, something entirely different springing from theology. This was God seeking us rather than we seeking God. Or, as the old hymn so rightly goes, “I sought the Lord and afterward I knew, he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me. T’was not I that found O’ Savior true, no I was found of thee.”

He who rules the universe, Who is and was and evermore shall be, rode into a major city on a borrowed donkey. A 76-trombone-parade, and then a betrayal, a scourging, crucifixion and death. He, with enough eternity inside of Him to be aware of the first tree that ever grew, was soon to die upon a tree. Wow.

Would you like to at least begin to understand the timelessness of that Good Friday event come to fruition on Easter morn?

Then walk the well-worn floor of some ancient cathedral, or a new and unmarked floor of some church built no more than a year ago, and realize that Christ and the calendar are not on the same page.

When it comes to Christ and eternity and our immortality…calendars really are only an earthly convenience. For this ending was really a beginning.

Who could even consider that a large stone rolled across a tomb-opening could actually hold back the forces of creation, the powers of heaven, the Son of Man and the Son of God?

Palm Sunday and crucifixion-time are intertwined. It is why it is a tradition to take palm fronds and form a cross. You see, if Jesus had only headed up an earthly parade it would all have been for nothing. Parades come to an end.

It would have been safer if Jesus and His disciples had slipped into Jerusalem under cover of darkness because things had been going from bad to worse. The powerful were tired of hearing about this Jesus and afraid of the power He seemed to have over the people.

And only Jesus knew that even the worst could become a super better - life after death, forgiveness because of suffering. Jesus had the total picture firmly implanted in His mind. So in broad daylight He rode toward His doom.

Think back on his message, “Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you peace.” His message during His entire ministry was heaven laden - with love, with compassion, with concern.

Have you ever stopped to think what Palm Sunday really shouts? It shouts that Jesus cared about people more than power; that His journey along the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha and the cross was more about servant-hood than suffering. Jesus had been offered an earthly crown and He was interested only in a crown of thorns and what a Crucifixion would do.

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