Good day steemians :) Here in the Philippines, we cultured and practiced religious traditions. And this day, sunday, is actually the Palm Sunday for the upcoming Holy Week in the Philippines.
And i'm gonna share to you a piece made by Michael Gehrling, a pastor/campus minister in their town. His piece is entitled, "What kind of king are you?".
"What kind of king are you?" by Michael Gehrling
What kind of king rides on a donkey a donkey that might be borrowed, or might be hijacked?
What kind of king builds a castle with a wide open door for children to enter but a needle-eye sized hole for the rich?
What kind of king rides on a donkey into the city where his assassins are waiting?
What kind of king enters his assassins’ city with a ragtag commotion for all to see and not one security guard?
What kind of king lets his subjects treat him like a military liberator but doesn’t come with a single sword or weapon?
What kind of king lets his followers send a public message to the competing powers with no intent of answering a single challenge?
What kind of King are you?
What kind of King can send two followers to fetch a donkey and know exactly what they’ll need to say?
What kind of king can tell a blind beggar “your faith has made you well.” And actually make him see?
What kind of king can weep at the funeral of his friend only to say, “Lazarus, come out!” and watch him come back to life.
What kind of king can sit at the dinner table with his subjects and be subject to them and wash their feet?
What kind of king can carry his own cross can serve his assassin and help in his own execution?
What kind of king can die so that his assassins can live?
What kind of King are you?
A King who came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.
A King who keeps his promises
A King who I can trust
A King who can save
A King I want to follow
And so I come to you, King Jesus not to be served by you but to serve you and to give my life to you.
So take my cloak use it to clothe the naked or use it for your donkey to step on. I don’t care so long as you’re the one taking it.
Because you’re the only one who will give me a new garment in return, a white robe made of saints righteous deeds, a garment that fits so well it’ll be a new self, your self.
Use me, King Jesus, all of me. As you see fit. Make me a knight or a bishop or a rook, or make me an expendable pawn. I don’t care what piece I am. So long as yours is the hand that’s moving me.
Because yours is the mighty hand with an outstretched arm. Yours is the hand that rules with an iron scepter, and that knit me together in my mother’s womb.
So let me follow you, King Jesus all the way to Golgotha.
Let me walk next to you and put palm branches at your feet and shout “Hosanna!” with the children.
And if the child in me shouting “Hosanna!” grows up to an adult shouting “Crucify!” bring me back to the water where I can be born again.
Let me sit at the table with you and take bread and wine from you hands and let me lay my head on your chest.
And if thirty pieces of the world’s silver are ever enough to draw me away Wash my feet and make me clean again
Let me pray with you at Gethsemane and learn from you how to be vulnerable with the Father let me see your tears and sweat and grief.
And if my prayers give way to sleep wake me again with the waters of regeneration.
Let me walk with you to the cross. Let me be Simon of Cyrene, and learn to carry your cross with you.
And if my Simon of Cyrene becomes Simon Peter and I walk away from your cross to deny you lead me back to these waters where I can still die with you.
And live.
And all along this long rough road let my song be:
Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! and BLESSED IS THE KING OF ISRAEL!"
Thank you for stopping by and Godbless :)