A little girl came home from worship. It was Palm Sunday. Her father asked what she had learned that day. She told him she learned all about the crowd waving their palm branches and singing a song to Jesus.

The father was pleased that she had learned so much. He asked, “What was the song they were singing to Jesus?”

The little girl paused, then said, “I think it was ‘O Susanna’.”

Palm Sunday is the celebration of that momentous day when crowds of people welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem and the crowds sang, “O Susanna.” Well, not exactly. They sang, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” They welcomed Jesus as their potential liberator from the oppression of Rome. They could not know that he came as their Savior from the ravages of sin and death.

Even more importantly,…