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more about how we are to respond to the Lord as king and how we can be
part of His Kingdom. The Lord is riding on a young donkey that has never
been ridden before. The donkey or colt represents our natural mind, and in
particular our rational mind. Our mind, the donkey, is the vehicle and the
Lord is the driver. Our mind is the vehicle we use to travel through the world,
the way we understand the world, the way we think about it, the way we move
through life.
What if the Lord was really the driver in our lives? We could still be the
engine that makes the vehicle go, but what if the Lord was the driver? What if
we, in freedom, said, ”Lord please drive this vehicle for me. Drive my heart,
drive my mind, drive my life.” What would that look like? Our mind needs
to be like a young donkey that has never been ridden before. It needs to be
a fresh, innocent mind, a mind that is motivated by obedience, submission,
humility and a willingness to follow the Lord’s lead.
The garments and clothing they spread along the Lord’s path also represent
something about ourselves. What we are wearing right now says something
about us – about the way we interact with the world and want to be perceived
by the world. Our thoughts and ideas, the truths we have made our own, are
represented through those garments.
Are we willing to lay down our ideas and the truths we have learned and
let them be a border and pathway lining the way for the Lord to come in and be
king in our lives? Similarly, the palm branches represent the truths of faith we
use in our lives. Are we willing to lay those down for the Lord? Are we willing
to say, “These things we have learned from your Word and are trying to live by,
can we give them back to you? Can these be a pathway for you to ride in and
help rule our lives?”
Going back to free will, it is important to see that the Lord will never force
us to accept His leadership. The Lord doesn’t do things against our will. He
doesn’t do things to us at all. He does things for us. He does things in us. He
does things with us. He does things through us – but always according to our
free-will submission to His leading.
We are the key piece in the entire Kingdom of God on earth, really. The
Lord’s truth is the pathway that describes it all, but we as human beings help
create that Kingdom of God on earth. The ܙ