This series, Mourn Again, invites us into the Lenten season, a time of repentance and mourning over our sin. In mourning for our sin, we are reminded what it was like to come to Christ for the very first time. This Lent, we will remember what it means to encounter Christ with afresh, taking nothing for granted—neither our wrongdoings nor our salvation. We come face to face once more with our ungodly behavior, open our hearts to remorse, and receive forgiveness and our hope in Jesus, who is the Christ.
Who is this Jesus? Surely, many of the people in the city of Jerusalem might have been asking themselves this question as they see others gathering palm fronds and throwing them before this man, riding into town on donkey and her colt. Let us take nothing for granted in answering this question. Let us be those among the celebrants of Jesus’s triumphal entry and those who were in the desert to listen to John the Baptist as the Messiah approaches.