Wholly Week: Understanding Wholeness, Palm Sunday, and What it means to Be Fruitful
It’s Wholly Week!
Palm Sunday commemorates the celebration of Jesus’ willingness to save us. It’s a day to remind us to welcome Jesus into our hearts and be willing to follow Him.
“Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!” ~Matthew 21:9 (NKJV)
Hosanna is the expression of praise – meaning a special honor to our savior. As we kickoff this week, I want to connect this dot.
Wholeness is contingent on believing that Holy Week happened.
What do I mean by wholeness?
Wholeness is the state of God’s original design for our life, which was for each part of who we are to be perfectly interwoven, operating as a complete function.
We were created before we had a physical body and soul. Looking at the Trinity – God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they operate as one. Perfectly interwoven to function. That was His image according to their likeness. That’s how we were created and what God intended us to be like and do.
Here’s the point: being our whole self is representative of our 3-parts (body, soul, and spirit) being perfectly interwoven to function as one.
However due to the original sin, we were separated from the Spirit of God. It was the first time that man allowed for its soul to be spiritually influenced by something other than God to decide what the body should do. As a result of that decision, man became flawed, which is not like God. God is sinless, He is without blemishes and flaws. Hence separating us from God, making us different than God. This brokenness created a need for a savior because our spirit was no longer connected to its source. This disobedience drove man out of the presence of God.
Jesus came so that we may be made whole, getting us back to our original design of operating wholistically.
Righteous is operating in accordance with divine law. This means, believing that we were condemned and in need of a Savior – who as Christians know that to be Jesus Christ, allows for us to get back to the original design – a 3-part being operating as a whole.
What do I mean by fruitful? The abundance of the fruit of the Spirit – Galatians 5:22-23 (NASB) says “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
Getting back to what Holy Week also known as Passion Week, represents the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus. It’s the week He saved us and gave us access to be made whole again. In the likeness of Christ, His flesh was crucified so that we may live and not be spiritually dead and disconnected from our Creator.
The first guiding principle in living wholistically is knowing that we are broken and in need of a savior. For the areas you’re feeling disconnected, ask yourself
- Who’s your savior?
- What do you look to and depend on when it’s time to decide how you show up and what you should do.
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