Daily Lesson for June 10, 2021

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 19 verses 29 through 38:

29 When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, 30saying, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31If anyone asks you, “Why are you untying it?” just say this: “The Lord needs it.” ’ 32So those who were sent departed and found it as he had told them. 33As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, ‘Why are you untying the colt?’ 34They said, ‘The Lord needs it.’ 35Then they brought it to Jesus; and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. 36As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. 37As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, 38saying,

‘Blessed is the king

who comes in the name of the Lord!"

You talk about a wild ride!

I can see Jesus on this little, untrained colt, holding on for dear life as the animal tries to outrun what or whoever it is that is on his back.

There is laughter. There is hilarity and yelling. There is a coronation of jest, and the theatre of the absurd.

Everyone knows what this mockery is about. Pontius Pilate and his soldiers will soon be arriving in Jerusalem. They will come without even a hint of joy, or the purse of a smile. And they will come on mighty warhorses.

But Jesus comes lowly, and riding on a donkey; and the political theatre draws quite the crowd and makes quite the point.

Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.