“After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’” Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?” They replied, “The Lord needs it.”They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road. When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives,the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
Luke 19:28-40
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.”
1 Peter 1:3-5
As we prepare our hearts for this Advent season, now is as good as time as any to allow Jesus to shine areas in our lives that He wants to come in and change.
The word Advent means coming or the arrival of something that has been expected.
There is something that we have all waited for, the list could be endless. As I begin to think of the endless list I am brought to a simple yet profound thought. What has the Lord been waiting for from me?
Take sometime to think about it, but don’t be hard on yourself.
There could be one thing that comes to mind or there could be many. The purpose behind this question is for us to see areas that Jesus wants to come in and heal, redeem and restore to His plan and purpose in our lives. There can be areas that He was been waiting for from us to surrender and lay down to Him. This simple action will stir in your heart the soil needed to start the work that the Lord is wanting to do during this season.
In this we can find hope.
A deep hope rooted in Jesus Christ.
Hope, as is written in Hebrews 6:19, is a sure and steadfast anchor for our souls. Hope is something that we can rest in. Hope is a much more than a feeling. It’s change of heart and of mind. It’s a charge for us to believe that our King is who He says He is.
In Luke, we find the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem. This was His “triumphal entry”. The event that everyone had been waiting for is finally here. Passover is about to begin and all of Jerusalem is preparing themselves for it and what does Jesus do? He enters on a donkey. He enters Jerusalem in the most unlikely way.
This is a perfect picture of what Jesus does in most our lives though.
He enters in the most unlikely ways. He comes in a spectacular ways with a triumphant explosion of love and wonder and other times He enters gently and softly wanting to simply pour out the splendor of His goodness and love on us.
Our hope should never move from this. Jesus wants to come in and ravish us with who He is. He wants to give us what He purchased on the cross. We have a living hope in Christ Jesus that allows us access to Jesus and all that God has for us. Through the death and resurrection of Christ, we have access to a multitude of blessings that cannot be taken from us. We have access to a Kingdom that will never end, with an inheritance that will never be defiled and that cannot perish.
In this season of preparing our hearts for the coming of the Lord, we must take the time to see where we have let hope fade. In this time we must allow ourselves to fall back into the arms of our loving Father, back in the arms of hope, back into the arms of love.
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