Quick Question for the Vox Collective

nice header. very nice. congrats.

Ha, yeah right.

I think it’s fair to say that we’re all still in the process of “getting it.” I can resonate deeply with God’s Father metaphor, but each year brings new depth to my understanding of what that means.

I think many in the crowd got just a glimpse of the Jesus the Christ as King without fully understanding it. Just as with us, some of their hearts were honestly praising God and others were looking for a political hero.

In the end, a smaller number like the disciples and other followers really “got it” as much as humans can, which I suppose is something for us to learn from.

I think at the time EVERYONE was looking for a political Messiah. The disciples still didn’t get it even in the beginning of Acts. (see “Are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”) We don’t really have an account of anybody “getting it”. Maybe some did. Perhaps the women The people praised him and welcomed him into the city because they thought he would begin to lead another revolution against Rome (like the Maccabees), but this time it would last. After they saw that he was not going to do what they wanted, they had him killed. I’m not sure it’s a day I’m all about celebrating. Even as a child I didn’t really understand why we would celebrate such an obviously misguided action of the people. I guess we do that all the time though.