Circuit Thoughts

He was past the point of no return. There was no turning back.

He asked two of his followers to procure a donkey’s colt. He rode it into the city, while crowds laid their cloaks, coats, and palm branches on the ground in front of it. There was no turning back.

The crowds shouted and cheered. “Hosanna,” they cried, “Hosanna in the highest!” The officials feared a riot, they tried to calm things down, but there was no turning back. The mechanism had been started and there was no fail safe. The only way to go was to see it all through. There was no turning back.

The crowds wanted miracles, they wanted food, they wanted freedom. They knew He could provide all of this. He wanted to change hearts. He wanted community. He wanted to save them from sin. He wanted them to trust in His father. He wanted peace. There was no turning back.

The leadership wanted control. They wanted the status quo. They wanted conformity. They wanted power and prestige. He could not offer this. They wanted Law, he wanted to correct the Law. They wanted blood, He came to offer it. They wanted sacrifice, and He was right there. There was no turning back.

The people had been in darkness for so long, and He was the light, yet that light was on its way to be extinguished. They wanted forgiveness, but that took a lamb and blood. He was offering Himself. They wanted riches, He wanted worship. They wanted power, He wanted service. There was no turning back.

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, things tend to get destroyed. He came to remove the immovable, yet it was going to cost him. There was no turning back.

All those praising voices were soon going to start cursing and condemning Him. The very priests of His temple would seek and pursue His death. Even His own people would betray, deny, and desert Him in His time of need, but there was no turning back.

Later in a garden during prayer time, He will ask if there is another way. But He would submit himself to what was to come, no matter how gruesome. There was no turning back.

He would be arrested, accused, beaten, stripped, beaten again, and convicted in a kangaroo court. An enemy judge would try to free him, but to no avail. He would be required to carry His own instrument of execution and then nails would be driven through His hands and feet. There was no turning back.

He would do all of this so we could be freed from the pain of sin. He would do this to save humanity from eternal damnation and death. He gave His life, so we would not have to. We know the wages of sin is death, but He paid the wages. He fulfilled the covenant and paid the bill.

He made a way for us to….Turn Back.

Just a thought.

Shalom my friends. See you in church.