{"id":3843,"date":"2025-04-14T07:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2025-04-13T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:53:56","slug":"the-cry-of-hosanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/the-cry-of-hosanna\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cry of Hosanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Monday, April 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83c\udf3f<\/strong><strong> The Cry of Hosanna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: &#8216;Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!\u2019 <strong>Matthew 21:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday marked the beginning of Holy Week, a sacred journey that starts with <strong>Palm Sunday<\/strong>. It&#8217;s the day we remember Jesus&#8217; entry into Jerusalem \u2014 not on a warhorse, but on a humble donkey. The streets were alive with celebration: palm branches waving, people singing, shouting, dancing, and laying down their garments as a royal welcome.<\/p>\n<p>They cried out with joy: &#8220;<em>Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word Hosanna means \u201cSave us now.\u201d It was a cry not just of praise, but of deep need. The people were desperate \u2014 they longed for freedom, for deliverance, for hope. They believed Jesus might be the King to rescue them from oppression. What they didn\u2019t fully understand was that He came not to save them from Rome, but from something far deeper: sin, death, and brokenness.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s where you are today.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe life feels heavy \u2014 weighed down by stress, finances, health struggles, relationship tension, or simply the ache of feeling unseen.<\/p>\n<p>If so, take heart: Jesus sees you. He hears your Hosanna. He knows the weight you carry. And the same Savior who entered Jerusalem on a donkey comes into your life today \u2014 humble, compassionate, and ready to meet your need.<\/p>\n<p>Lay your burdens before Him. Just as the people laid down their garments, lay down your worries, your fears, your wounds. Jesus tramples over them with love and grace \u2014 not ignoring them, but carrying them all the way to the cross.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He is a promise-keeping God.<\/p>\n<p>He came then to save.<\/p>\n<p>And He comes now \u2014 for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hosanna in the highest!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 14 \ud83c\udf3f The Cry of Hosanna Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: &#8216;Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!\u2019 Matthew 21:9 Yesterday marked the beginning of Holy Week, a sacred journey that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}