Fellowship in the Fall Introduction

Each day in October, there will be a daily devotion written for the Fellowship in the Fall participants of LMPC (and anyone else who cares to read this).  It will concentrate on the Temple Teachings of Jesus- right before His arrest- in Matthew 21-24.  

As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”

Thoughts: Jesus was preparing to enter into Jerusalem coming up from Jericho.  He had many followers out in the country, but he had not publicly taught in Jerusalem for any length of time.  He was about to enter Jerusalem as a prince, but he could not afford and did not own a donkey (the coronation animal that a prince in Judah rode).  The method of obtaining the donkey was not stealing it, or even planning way ahead of time to have the donkey there.  There was no email, text, cell or even hard line phone that would allow a message to be sent ahead to say, "Have the donkey at just the right spot and a guy named James or John will come along and get it at 8:00 in the morning."  Jesus, is the Son of God, and he prophecies his death but also prophecies his entrance as king- and the detail of the donkey is a part of that. 
     But the sad thing is "He came to his own and his own did not receive Him...Thought the world was made through Him the world did not recognize Him." (John 1:10-11).  The king, the Messiah, the most holy high priest comes and the Temple officials not only don't recognize Him- they kill Him.  Jesus knows it is a sad and short coronation that He faces.  

Prayer: Lord, let me recognize you are the King.  The whole world- all the donkeys, all the cars, all the things made of the elements you made are yours.  All I have is yours too.  Thank you that you rode into Jerusalem for me- even though it meant your death.