No one likes being disappointed. But the potential for disappointment always lurks around the corner of each great hope and each great expectation. And there is no one we expect more of than God. So when God disappoints us, it can be crushing. When was the last time you were disappointed with God? Maybe that is your struggle today; unanswered prayers or unanswered hopes. For the crowds gathered on that first Palm Sunday, disappointment with Jesus is the only way to explain a man who was almost crowned king and then executed for treason just a week later. The crowd’s disappointment with Jesus tells us a lot about our disappointments and expectations of Jesus as well. Both their expectations and their disappointment were contained in the word they shouted, “Hosanna!” Let’s look at the text and that unique word that has come to define Palm Sunday.
