One of my favorite days of the year is Palm Sunday. At Providence Road, we invite all the children to come to the stage waving their palm fronds and singing Hosanna! It is too precious and the flash bulbs are nearly blinding as moms and dads and grandparents take tons of pictures. It's really quite a sight!
In today's reading John describes a perpetual Palm Sunday. He saw a great multitude, too numerous to count, standing before the throne, waving palm branches, and crying out, "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and unto the Lamb."
As I was reading this in my favorite study Bible, I found notes from some lesson or the other that I'd heard in the past. I didn't mark down who said it, but it was probably from a Beth Moore lesson as my Bible is filled with pearls of wisdom from her teaching. This note was about verse 9 and the phrase, "from every nation, tribe, people, and language." The note said that the word translated as nation refers to people set apart according to location, customs and laws.
The word translated as tribe means set apart by blood lines tracing to common ancestors.
The word translated as people means set apart by various common bonds of a society.
The word translated as language means set apart by different languages.
We will then be bound by our common belief in and love for God and the Lamb. And nothing will be more important to us than falling down to worship.
Now that really will be a sight to see...
- Holly Barrett
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