Make it Personal

 

“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”

Colossians 2:15

There is an older song we used to sing that included these words:

“Something Beautiful

Something good

All my confusion you understood

All I had to offer you was brokenness and strife

But you made something beautiful out of my life”

 

Bringing it more up-to-date is a song we currently sing that says:

“You take what the enemy meant for evil and you turn it for good.”

God is in the turnaround business!

Let me take you back now to the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and what we celebrate as Palm Sunday.

Was there a divine turn-around in Jesus’ life?

Well, we all know the answer to that.

Remember, prior to the resurrection the cross was in-between the two events of the Triumphal Entry and the Resurrection. 

The cross was not a mistake that required God to suddenly alter His plans.

It was all part of the plan.

There was no mystery in heaven that had to be quickly resolved.

Imagine a mystery writer who always reveled the whodunit on page one of his story?

How many books would he sell?

Not many.

If Jesus could send two disciples into a town with such specific instructions about His transportation in order to fulfill a prophetic word, how much more so did He understand what was ahead for Him in Jerusalem.

“Palm Sunday” would be followed by the greatest turn-around ever recorded in human history.

Jesus had to go to the cross.

But that was never a mystery to Him or to His Father.

We look now and can declare that indeed history has never before and will never again record a more vital, more necessary turn-around than what took place between the Triumphant Entry and Calvary and again between Calvary and Gethsemane.

But it was only a turn-around, a plot twist, a mystery to us.

To God it was a straight line plan and purpose.

The disciples without the benefit of hindsight might have called it tragic but it was truly anything but.

It was Gods’ triumph.  

God has a turnaround for you too if you need it.

He cares for the nations of the earth but He also cares for each individual as well. Remember He will leave the ninety and nine to go after the one in need of that turnaround.

He cares for you!

Understand that the God that brought countless divine turnarounds in the Bible is still the same—yesterday, today and forever.

His arm is not short and His promises are sure.