“Say to the Daughter of Zion,
‘See, your king comes to you,
gentle and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”
They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,
“Hosanna to the Son of David!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Hosanna in the highest!”
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’”
The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
“ ‘From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise’?” (Matthew 21:5, 7-9, 12-16 NIV84)
Most people will agree that God's plans are better than our own, but there is the question of who sits on the throne on our own lives- who is the real King?
When we surrender our hearts to the the Lord Jesus, He doesn't just come in and "occupy" us, He is ascending the Throne room that he created solely for His dwelling place; inside the Temple, in the Holy of Holies-deep within our hearts.
The term "occupy" has a flavor of temporarily taking control over something that doesn't rightfully belong to the occupier. This is the place that belongs to Him, this is the return of the King to his rightful throne. In my spirit lately I have been seeing Jesus storming into His house, His Temple(s), overturning everything that is unholy, out of order; everything that hinders love for Him and for others.
When Jesus came, He burned furiously with holy zeal and in the same way, Jesus also burns with zeal to be Lord of our lives-what's inside of our hearts. He doesn't just come in and turn over the tables, leaving wreckage behind, no, He rearranges everything -and that changes everything.
Beloved, is today Coronation Day?
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