So today is the start of the Holy Week...

Can you imagine what it must have been like that Palm Sunday when Jesus rode on an untainted, never harnessed colt towards Jerusalem? That itself was in fulfillment of a 500 year old prophecy (Zechariah 9:9). As He rode majestically and yet humbly, the crowds gave Him a rousing cheer. They praised Him. They honored Him. The response of the Pharisees was nothing majestic. They were vexed. They told Him to rebuke His disciples. In today's parlance, they wanted Him to ask them to “shut up!”

But what was the response of Jesus?

We read in Luke 19:40:

But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”

So if the disciples should hold their peace, God would raise up even inanimate objects like the lifeless stones to declare His praise. Wow! Our God is sovereign. He rules over all. There is no creature or activity that is not under His government. He can do whatever He desires in every realm of creation.

Whatever the LORD pleases He does,
In heaven and in earth,
In the seas and in all deep places.

Psalm 135:6

Yes, our sovereign and omnipotent God can do whatever He desires, even with stones.

When Jesus rode into Jerusalem, He was officially presented as the Son of God and the King of kings. We pay homage to earthly kings and rulers whose lives are frail and whose kingdoms are transient. Should our response to our King of kings be any less?

How foolish the proud Pharisees were to want the disciples (and all the women and children) to “shut up!" They were totally devoid of any kind of spiritual understanding.

Don't let anyone muzzle your praise today. Or any day. Keep it coming. Keep it flowing. Our King of kings deserves it.

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