Your King is with you
This fresh set of Daily Devotions is being provided for our LCA/NZ family, friends and visitors to help us to keep our eyes on Jesus as we face unsettling times. They can be used by families and individuals as part of the LCA/NZ’s Church@Home resources to encourage us and build trust in our Heavenly Father during this season of uncertainty and physical isolation.
by Pastor Tim Ebbs
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Look, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey (Matthew 21:5).
In this very different time we have the privilege of being God’s witnesses to so many in our community who are anxious, uncertain, and may even be panicking, fearful for their health, their loved ones, their jobs, their homes, their future.
This virus has shown us the very real limitations we all have – that life is not ours to control. It shows our common frailty as human beings, and our utter dependence on a saving power and help outside of ourselves.
That power and help rode in to Jerusalem to be nailed to a cross. Palm Sunday reminds us that although we are in isolation, God did not isolate himself from us. Palm Sunday reminds us that God sent his saving help from the highest heaven: Jesus, true God, Son of the Father from all eternity, born for us, the one from Nazareth of Galilee. So we have such good news to hear for ourselves and to share with others.
In the person of Christ, God has already come into a perishing world to be its Saviour, and his saving help is bigger and far more powerful than anything – even Coronavirus, and even death itself. For through his own death Jesus has brought life to the world. Through his shed blood God has forgiven you all your sins, so that nothing will ever be able to separate you from the love of God or his saving help in Christ Jesus.
Your King is with you until the very end of the age, and through his holy word he still comes to you in gentleness to bestow divine peace. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your saving help for the world from the highest heaven – the Blessed One, our Lord Jesus Christ. Keep us safe in your care, close to your word, and strong in faith, so that we can joyfully proclaim the hope we have to others and sing your praise forever. Amen.
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