Have you ever been called fickle? If you have, you probably did not like it. Fickle is not something any of us would ever want to be known as. The dictionary defines "fickle" as "Inconstant in feeling or in purpose; changeful; capricious." Roget's Thesaurus gives synonyms for the word "fickle" like "indecisive; unstable; unreliable; irresponsible; vacillating." And beyond that, there is almost a connotation of dishonesty about the word "fickle." No one would want to be called fickle.

But every year about this time, as we read of the events of the last week of Jesus' earthly life, one cannot help but be struck by the fickleness of people. Here we have Palm Sunday, great crowds shouting their lungs out: "Hosanna ... Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord ... Hosanna in the highest!…