Healthy marriages require healthy faith. As we draw nearer to God, we can draw ever nearer to each other, but we can’t have spiritually healthy marriages if there isn’t a spiritually healthy…us.
“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey.” Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 21:5
God sat on a donkey.
Those who would drive a wedge between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament forget that it was the God of the Old Testament who foretold coming in the flesh and entering Jerusalem on a donkey, in a state of astonishing gentleness.
This was not an accidental occurrence. Warriors rode horses, not donkeys. Donkeys were used to carry burdens, or perhaps—in the case of Mary—a very pregnant woman. But never a conquering king! Just try to imagine a large-scale movie where the attacking army descends a hill into the valley, bumping up and down on donkeys as they brandish their swords! The action movie would become a comedic farce.
Yet in the last week of his life on earth, Jesus specifically instructed his disciples to find a donkey for him to ride on. Jesus was eager to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies and to proclaim his gentleness to the world, just before passion week. He comes as a friend, a Savior, and not as a warlord.
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