Save Me

This week’s reading:

The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Blessed is the King of Israel!"

John 12:12-13

The word Hosanna, I am told, means “Save me!”

So heres the thing:

- Jesus saves us
- Being saved is an ongoing process
- We are saved from moment to moment

This for me means:

- Jesus is my strength – when I grow tired & weary
- Jesus is my fortress – when the world hammers at my emotional & spiritual reserves
- Jesus is my all – beacuse I live for Him

Blessed is He for who He is!

Humility

This week’s reading:

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,
or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:13-14


I used to think humility was an attitude. I have learnt that it is actually a discipline.

It works like this:

- every time I am complimented for achievements, I say aloud, “God is good!”
- every time I think I can look down on people, I think gratefully, “Thank you for changing me, Jesus!”
- every time I am to occupied with myself, I remember lovingly, “God wants to hug the world!”

The truth is that we are nothing without Him.