Word for the Week

The Lord has need of you!

Week beginning: 9th April, 2017 | By Esther Harrison | Nottingham

…then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord has need of them,' and immediately he will send them." All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet… 

Matthew 21:1-4 (NKJV)

"Immediately". It brooks no hesitation or questions but rather faithful obedience.

Meditating on this part of the Palm Sunday narrative, I was struck by two things. Firstly, that God's sovereign intention to introduce His Son in fulfilment of great p