Unite Your Suffering to His Majesty

About this episode

The episode discusses the nature of suffering and how Jesus confronts it during Palm Sunday.

We all have the same, understandable reaction to suffering – RUN! We want to flee from it, make it stop, numb it, ignore it, avoid it at all costs. Not our God. Palm Sunday forces us to confront pain in an altogether ridiculous way.  Here is Jesus Christ, riding into Jerusalem, not as one swept along by circumstance, but as one who has already read the final chapter and chooses, nonetheless, to walk straight into it. He knows what awaits Him. Let us not soften it. Betrayal by a friend. False accusations. Public humiliation. Torture. Death of the most cruel and calculated kind. And yet He goes. Now if this were mere ignorance, we might pity Him. If it were compulsion, we might mourn Him. But it is neither. It is, rather, laser-like intention. The crowd, as you know, cried out in celebration. They spread their cloaks and waved branches, as though a king had come at last to banish their troubles. And indeed, a King had come but not the sort they imagined. For this King does not deal with suffering by issuing decrees against it, nor by remaining safely beyond its reach. He deals with it by entering it. He rides, as it were, into the very razor-sharp mouth of the dragon.He does…

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Topics covered

• suffering
• Palm Sunday
• Jesus Christ
• betrayal
• sacrifice

Keywords

• pain
• humiliation
• torture
• death

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Jerusalem

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