yesterday....

....was Palm Sunday for believers,

the beginning of Holy Week,

when we celebrate Jesus' last steps to the cross.

Jesus knew what He was going to do...

but no one else did.

Jesus knew that he was going to die

a horrible death on a cross.

He would ask God to remove this "bitter cup" from Him 

on the night before He died,

but He qualified His statement by saying,

"Not My will but Your will be done."

He came riding into Jerusalem on a donkey

to the cries of

"Hosanna to the Son of David!  

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

Hosanna in the highest."

He made a "Triumphal Entry" into Jerusalem.

"A very great multitude 

spread their garments on the ground;

others cut down branches from the trees 

and spread them on the road."

Matthew 21: 1-11

These same Hosanna shouters

 would be screaming for His death before the end of the week.

Little did they know their part in 

the most amazing of all of 

God's plans and purposes for mankind.

Jesus was born to die.

That was God's intent from the very beginning.

He would take all of our sins upon Himself so that we

could be reconciled to God.

There was nor will there ever be any other way.

Believers are those 

who have put their complete faith and trust

 in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Palm Sunday ~ March 29, 33 AD

PS... Jesus spent the night in Bethany this night.

How fitting that we see His need for the

comfort of His closest friends.