Day 239..."The whole heart...a new song...Palm Sunday"
Joash implements a tax to repair the temple. (He feels the Temple is neglected) The images sound prosperous. Today's reading in II Chronicles does chronicle many events and kings. I noticed a phrase about Amaziah..."And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart." It seems that this is the case of even good kings that they could be persuaded. The 24th and 25th chapters seem to go up and down with honoring and dishonoring God. Isaiah 42 brings some realities and hope. I like the hopeful image of a new song..."Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise from the end of the earth." Jesus enters Jerusalem in what is known as a Palm Sunday passage. The Lord does ask for a colt, and in Mark's account, offers to return the animal. The Luke account leaves this detail out. What a glorious reading..."HOSANNA...BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!"
posted by Philip McVay @ 12:39 PM
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Is. 42 promises that blind eyes will see and deaf ears will hear... is this not the purpose of the parables that we have been studying? Mk. 4 says: To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables; in order that ‘they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’” Praise God that He wishes for us to know Him!
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