The Lord Comes in Meekness and Humility to Save Us Now
The Lord Jesus enters Jerusalem “humble and mounted on a donkey,” riding on “a beast of burden” (Matthew 21:5), as He Himself bears the sins of the world in His body. Now He comes by the Ministry of the Gospel to save us from sin, death, the devil, and hell. Therefore, we sing, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Matthew 21:9). For we are called “to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob,” His holy Church, “that He may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths” (Isaiah 2:3). By His word, we “walk in the light of the Lord” (Isaiah 2:5). That is to live in love, which “does no wrong to a neighbor” (Romans 13:10). We “cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light,” for “salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed” (Romans 13:11-12). Hence, the entire Christian life4 is a time of wake and watch, “for you do not know on what day you Lord is coming” (Matthew 24:42).
Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:8-14; Matthew 21:1-11/24:36-44
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