“The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord– the King of Israel!’  Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written: ‘Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion.  Look your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!’  His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.  So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.  It was also because they heard that he had performed this sign that the crowd went to meet him.  The Pharisees then said to one another, ‘You see, you can do nothing.  Look, the world has gone after him!'”

~ John 12.12-19, NRSV

Today, I give thanks and praise to God that the king that is Jesus Christ has come into the world to save sinners (I Timothy 1.15), for the opportunity to remember the days when the Son of God walked the earth in human flesh, for his life’s example of how we are to “live, move and have our being” in the world (Acts 17.28) and the pleasure of worshipping him as the Messiah.  Hosanna!  Hosanna! Hosanna!