If anyone asks, 'Why are you untying that colt?' just say, 'The Lord needs it.'" Luke 19:31
Imagine this fictional scene in Israel that day…
Jedediah shuffled to the feed shed and set the bucket on the floor. His back protested as it did every time he bent over. Seven decades of hard work had taken a toll on his body. He stood in the shaft of sunlight filtering through the cracks and tried to feel hopeful. Yahweh had been good to him, but always this nagging sense of failure. Life was hard. Jed had been too busy providing for his family to do anything important for his God. He’d been faithful in all the ways he knew, but he would never match the Pharisees in spiritual significance—and they made sure he knew it. Jed couldn’t even read. He had no education, no title, no real skills. What could he possibly offer the God of Israel?
Three young men had approached his animal pens and were conversing loudly with each other. As a unit, they looked his way. One patted the back of Nellie, his best donkey, nodded to her colt, and then walked toward Jed, bowing in respect. “We’ve come on behalf of our Rabbi. Maybe you’ve heard of Him, Jesus of Nazareth? He has need of your donkey.” Jedediah’s heart skipped a beat and a dozen memories flooded his mind. The healer? The miracle worker? The forgiver of sins? He’d heard this Jesus teach in the synagogue and had never been the same. Jed offered the men a toothless grin. “Yes,” he said. “She’s yours.” As he watched them untie Nellie and lead her and her colt away, his heart swelled with gratitude. Of all the donkeys in Israel, the Messiah had chosen his. He lifted watery eyes to the sky. Maybe Yahweh had remembered him after all.
Jesus used a borrowed donkey to teach us that
no one and nothing offered to God is insignificant to Him.
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