Palm Sunday Devotion

                Palm Sunday Hosannas and Joy      
Hosanna they cried so loud and so clear
With loud joy-filled voices for all people to hear!
Who is this man on the donkey today
Around whom the children are dancing in play?
“Hosanna! Our King! Hosanna, Our Lord!
See us and save us!” their voices implored!
 
They laughed and they shouted as he rode into town.
“He is our king!”  But where is his crown?
 “Tell everyone, sing with confident joy.
This is a happiness that none can destroy.”
The crowds raise their hands and give homage to him,
For he has the power to bring freedom to them.
 
He looks at the crowds and his heart’s full of love.
His job here on earth was to serve God above,
To teach all God’s children to seek and embrace
A new life eternal filled with hope, peace and grace.
 
Jesus looks at the faces of these strangers and friends.
Where will they be when the week’s at its end?
They understand not what God has in His plan:
To save all God’s children, women and man.
The road’s filled with cloaks and branches of trees.
But do they understand; do they truly believe?
How great is their faith? Is their belief truly strong?
Their faith will be tested as the week moves along.
 
Jesus’ mind forms the thoughts that are not yet spoken
“Forgive them, Dear God, their faith will be broken.
Send them your Spirit so they can discern
That you’re their Creator, to whom they can turn.
Their voices will rise again in your praise
And they’ll seek out your Spirit with their faces upraised.”
 
So the donkey moves on through the chants of the throng,
And Jesus sits stoic, knowing these cheers will be gone:
“Hosanna, O Lord, please hear us and save us!
We are your kingdom, so hear us, O Jesus.”
Jesus is silent, his mind deep in thought,
“You do not know how your souls have been bought.
‘Save us’ they say. If only they knew…
And could understand, I am saving you...

 If only they knew – I am saving you.”
(author - Bonnie Barber)