Palm Sunday | 3/29/26
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Where in my life am I being invited to trust God’s boundaries—not as restriction, but as care for my well-being
What does humility look like for me right now—in my relationships, decisions, or daily rhythms?
Who might I be overlooking, avoiding, or quietly judging—and how is God inviting me to love them?
Where am I tempted to choose power, control, or comfort over the way of love?
Transcript:
He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death.
It all started so well. Adam and Eve, in the garden together, everything was perfect. God gave them just one boundary. You see that tree right over there? The one that's right in the middle of the garden. Don't take anything for yourself from that tree. That will not work out well for you.
And God also gave them the freedom to decide whether they would respect that boundary or not. Because what's a relationship if there's not the freedom to choose? We know how that story went, right? And how it kept repeating itself. God, setting boundaries for God's people for their own well-being. The people, resisting them time and time again.
God sent prophets to remind them who they were. The people often just wanted to stone the messengers. So finally, God thinks, “I guess I'll just have to come myself.” And Jesus came. He humbled himself.
See him walking down into the waters of the Jordan River, submitting himself to baptism in the way of righteousness. See him resisting temptation in the wilderness to choose power for himself. See him wrapping the towel around his waist and kneeling to wash the disciples’ feet.
He did not view equality with God as something to be exploited. He humbled himself and became obedient. And in his obedience, he held together the two parts of the greatest commandment that all the law and the prophets depended on: Love God, and love your neighbor.
See him healing the blind man on the Sabbath. See him welcoming the children. See him freeing the Samaritan woman from her shame. Not everybody appreciated his obedience to that way.
But he humbled himself and became obedient, even to the point of death. But death was not the point. His life was the point. He came to show us the way, to fulfill the relationship that God had in mind for us all along.
And he was unflinching in his obedience to the way of love. Even loving his enemies. Even if it would cost him his life.
In the end, his obedience proved the point: That there is nothing greater than the power of God's love. Not even death.
