Choose Jesus

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus . . .”(Philippians 2: 5)

Next Sunday we enter Holy Week on Palm Sunday, when we recall the events of that week in 32 A. D.A few months ago, on the first Sunday in Advent, we remembered the crowd’s excitement over the prospect of the coming Messiah as he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, foreshadowed by the prophet Zechariah in the fifth century B. C.:^[1]“See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey . . . He will proclaim peace to the nations.His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.” (Zechariah 9: 9-10).^[2]The people remembered that…