Holy Week | Palm Sunday | King Jesus | Mark 1:1-11

 We often do not live as though we have a King. Love. Dependence. Reverence. Celebration. Submission. Do those things characterise how you interact with Jesus, not just in the privacy of your personal devotions, but in your public displays of affection for Him. 

Sometimes we treat Jesus as an elected official, judging the job He’s doing by how it is meeting what we’ve deemed to be our most pressing needs. Our displays of affection are often minimal. Our celebration of His Kingship is diminished. Our reverence for Him, reductionistic. His royalty, a topic to be examined, but not a pervasive reality that requires the whole of our being. And yet the scriptures are clear, Jesus is King—good, benevolent, and worthy of honour and celebration. And Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, in many ways much like the Thai anthem, shows that when you believe you have a King, you respond accordingly.