Before I get started, I just wanted to say, this is the most attractive donkey I've ever laid eyes on. Super Cute <3
Today I felt like sharing with you a piece of Mark 11 known as Jesus' Triumphant Entry. Mark 11:1-11. Can't miss it (:
I'm gonna copy and paste it from BibleGateway.com (;
"1 As Jesus and his disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two of them on ahead. 2 “Go into that village over there,” he told them. “As soon as you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks, ‘What are you doing?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it and will return it soon.’”
4 The two disciples left and found the colt standing in the street, tied outside the front door. 5 As they were untying it, some bystanders demanded, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” 6 They said what Jesus had told them to say, and they were permitted to take it. 7 Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it, and he sat on it.
8 Many in the crowd spread their garments on the road ahead of him, and others spread leafy branches they had cut in the fields. 9 Jesus was in the center of the procession, and the people all around him were shouting,
“Praise God![a]
Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
10 Blessings on the coming Kingdom of our ancestor David!
Praise God in highest heaven!”[b]
11 So Jesus came to Jerusalem and went into the Temple. After looking around carefully at everything, he left because it was late in the afternoon. Then he returned to Bethany with the twelve disciples."
I really love this. If you think about it, its pretty deep in meaning.
Lets talk about the first half first.
Jesus told his disciples to go and get this colt from town, and if they were questioned, they were to say "The Lord needs it and will return it soon."
Now can you imagine being a disciple at this time right now going to get that colt?
Going into a busy town and just taking the tied up colt, and if someone asks, you have to say something that may sound foolish to people of this Earth?
It takes a whole lot of faith to do what His disciples did then.
Not only did they wonder into town and take a colt, but they said exactly what Jesus told them to say when they were questioned. Jesus wouldn't have been pleased if they took the calf, but when questioned, said something different of their own feelings. That would have not please him.
Imagine Jesus telling you to give half your money to the poor and you only gave one fourth. But I gave some! No, you didn't do as Jesus asked, therefore, you will not be rewarded.
To truly please the Lord, you must do exactly what he has told you to do.
Now for the second half.
When the disciples threw their garments over the donkey, and there where people throwing theirs onto the streets ahead, along with leafy branches they had cut in their fields, and then praised the Lord, that was truly incredible to me.
Can you imagine being that donkey?
This donkey has been tied up, un-noticed. Just, there. The donkey has never been ridden before just had no purpose.
And just all of the sudden Jesus' disciples come and get you! Woah, baby! What a day for the young donkey. What a day. And I really do mean that. What a day it was for the donkey to be untied, and brought to the Lord. Brought straight to the Lord.
Are there times where you feeled tied up and un-noticed? You feel you have no purpose in life. Well just hang in there. Because guess what?
Jesus knows about you.
He knows who you are. You knows your here. He cares about you and he guarentees that you have a purpose in life. Guarentees. He will not let you go unrecognized or un-noticed because that day when his disciples come and untie you from the post you will be awaken to your purpose. He is calling you. All you have to do now is answer.
Always know that where ever you walk, know that the Lord knows about you. He has great plans for you. And he truly cares for you.
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