Saturday afternoon I got totally sucked into watching a show on The History Channel called "Bible Battles" that traced many of the battles of the Old Testament and where and how they were fought. It put one thing into perspective for me for sure! That for at least 1000 years before Jesus was born the Israelites had been either at war with neighboring tribes or among themselves or enslaved to someone else.
Today's reading is a prophecy of the king who will come and bring peace. This portion of Zechariah was probably written about 300 years before Jesus. So for all this time, this promise was held up to the Jews. A conqueror would ride into Jerusalem on a donkey and eradicate their enemies from the land.
That's what the crowd was expecting that day in Jerusalem when Jesus fulfilled this portion of prophecy. The king did arrive, riding on a donkey and bringing salvation, but not in the way the crowd would have expected it.
How often are we like that? Our whole lives can seem like a battlefield sometimes with stress and frustration at every turn. And how we would run out to see someone who promised to take it all away and make our world peaceful in every way.
But what happens when things don't go the way we expect? Will we stay committed? That's the question we'll be addressing this week.
DAILY CHALLENGE: When we are tired and stressed do we let God work how he wants or do we turn away when the answer is not what we thought it would be?
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