Luke 19:28-36 (see also 2 Kings 9:13):Usable for Jesus.(Please click here for todays passage)

The life of discipleship involves suffering and glory. It entails embracing the cross and enjoying resurrection life and power. In it all Jesus goes ‘on ahead…to Jerusalem.’ He has gone before us. Let’s keep our focus on Him. Good leadership asks of others only what it is prepared to give itself. Jesus went to the cross,and calls others to join Him. He speaks with great authority and credibility out of His own example.

Jesus regularly sent His disciples out in twos (29, 30). He sends us out to ‘untie knots.’ When we are unable, it perplexes us (Mark 9:28). We have been given authority to unfasten all kinds of challenging knots.

Have you ever considered the divine power Jesus showed to ride a Colt that was previously unridden  (35,36). This in itself is surely at least hinting at His identity?

Is your ‘Colt’, or its equivalent, available to Jesus should He need it? (31). Have you yielded everything up to Him. Do you acknowledge that the Lord is the rightful and real owner of your possessions?

God’s Word never fails. We will always find things to be exactly how Jesus, in Scripture, says they will be (32-34).

Prayer: Lord Jesus, I sometimes feel like a bit of a donkey, but I offer up to you all I am and have. Please use me, if you will, to carry you into the city and to lift you up.

I also love this prayer – an extract from a longer prayer of F.B. Meyer:

‘Thou must have a Colt on which none had ever sat. I cannot give thee a heart which has never known another; but I profess to thee that there is no rival now. Thou mayst have all. Thine is the Kingdom…No longer do I seek great things for myself. It is enough for me to be and do anything, if only thou shalt be glorified.’ (‘Great verses through the Bible’, p.392).