becoming

那日，當人歡迎耶穌進入耶路撒冷時，
其實是歡迎祂來，做他們想要祂做的事。

今日，我們是否仍然如此？
還是真正以祂為我們的主？追隨祂，做祂要我們做的事情？

Only when I saw Jocelyn holding a paper palm leaf in her little hand on Sunday, I realized I have forgotten that yesterday was actually Palm Sunday. Coming home feeling a bit guilty, I came across this fantastic Palm Sunday sermon by Kim Fabricius over at Faith & Theology. Just read the final paragraph and you will know what I mean:

…you’re supposed to be a preacher, and isn’t the whole point of the sermon to make it easier to understand God, to increase our faith, so that we can go back to the world feeling edified, uplifted, and ready to share the Good News? Not today it’s not. Today I can’t help you. This week no one can help you. Come Friday, not even God – especially not God – can help you. And come Saturday, God himself is lying in a tomb. Emptiness. Zero. Nothing. But might it be a pregnant emptiness, a significant zero, a silent nothing that yet says everything? (after Alan E. Lewis). We shall have to wait till Easter. Only then shall we learn that this Week is Holy, and its Friday Good. Only then may we just find a new faith rising from the old faith that I pray you will lose today.

Read the whole thing here.