God simply does not seem to do the sort of things we would expect our God to do. He does not always give us what we want. Most of us do not have everything we had hoped and dreamed for in life. He does not always answer our prayers. After all, we have all lost loved ones.

Sometimes God seems so far away. We pray to him, and nothing is there (or so it seems). We look to God to intervene in our world. Yet the hungry, the poor and the oppressed are still with us. Where is God? Why does he seem so powerless? What kind of a God do we really have? Have you ever asked these questions? I know that I have. And I suspect that you have, too.

What kind of a God do we really have? Our Bible lessons for today, in fact the entire theme of Palm Sunday, give us some insight into that question. They remin…