Submit To the King

# 609 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 11:7,8 “ Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and He sat on it. And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road.”

First of all, remember that these people still held the idea that Jesus was an earthly Messiah, an earthly king. They believed he would restore the fortunes of Israel to the good times of David and Solomon.

Even so, I wish we in the church would be able to get a better grasp of the majesty of our Jesus, who is King of kings and Lord of lords. This was no “buddy, buddy,” worship service, this was Handel's Messiah to the nth degree.

Don't get me wrong, there is a place for contemporary worship and a place for the majesty of the church organ and trumpets. But here, on Palm Sunday, it was all about the latter.

Robes thrown under the feet of the king, just as they did for Jehu in 2 Kings 9:13, “in haste, every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, Jehu is king.”

This was an extraordinary symbolical act indicating a willingness to submit to the king. I pray that this is one aspect of our worship we will never omit from our worship services be they contemporary or traditional. Submit to Jesus with joy, let the Holy Spirit have His way with you, because Jesus is the King!

Father, so many things vie for our attention, even during our worship services, help us to quiet our hearts and joyfully submit to You, for in joyful submission is true worship.