Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
This journey to Jerusalem has created a lot of hype. People were getting worked up, in a good way, about what they believed Jesus was going to do. They thought Rome was going down and Jesus was just reminding them of all of his works up to this moment. The people were excited. They were ready. I've been thinking about this and reconsidering my thoughts on expectation versus expectancy. What am I am expectantly awaiting God to do in my world? Have I been looking at the signs and wonders and trying to make them fit into a pattern that will give me what I want? God does amazing work in our lives and we can look back on those moments and see how things may match up in current circumstances. The problem I have with this is that circumstances never seem to go as I expect. They don't turn out how I'm planning, much in the way Jerusalem is going to be a very different place in a week. So am I wrong to think about what I know about who God is and how He has worked in the past? Not at all! It is so important to consider what God has done in my life and praise Him for it! My faith is founded on those great works (even the sorrowful ones), but I cannot allow myself to set up false expectations of God. I can live in the expectancy that He will move, but I only set myself up for failure when I have a particular expectation of what/how He is going to do so. That was the problem for the crowds in Jerusalem. I am so very similar.
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