We wonder the same thing in Easter week every year: “How can people be so fickle?!”
At least some of the same crowd that cheered the Lord Jesus into Jerusalem that first Palm Sunday as Luke describes (chapter 19) called for Him to be crucified that first Good Friday (Chapter 23)! What changed in less than a week?!
The answer is those people were just like us: We forget…!
They’d forgotten what so many of them had heard and seen:
- His teaching like no-one else could.
- His making the blind see and enabling the lame to walk.
- Only a few miles from Jerusalem He’d raised Lazarus from the dead.
- Over the years He had driven out demons and healed countless others!
John tells us :
“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”
(John 21:25)
How could the crowd forget it all and call for someone who helped and served others so graciously to be crucified?
It was God’s rescue plan but the direct answer of course is sin: that tendency we all have to somehow believe that its ‘all about me’… when the truth is: ‘it’s all about Him’!
Last Sunday morning Maged reminded us how God changes such thinking from Acts Chapter 16: Lydia, the slave girl and finally the Philippian jailer:
He asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved…” (Acts 16:30,31)
This Easter, let’s take our eyes off ourselves and put them on Jesus who died for us and rose again in triumph. It’s all about Him!
Spencer Shaw