Palm Sunday • Palm Sunday • Each person has a king. Restated, each person has something that they hold to be most important in life.

Some people make money the king of their lives. In the United States money is the king for many. Alexis de Tocqueville said in 1835:

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men.1

Ogden Nash, with tongue in cheek, expressed the disillusionment of many whose king has easily disappeared:

O money, money, money, I’m not necessarily one of those who think thee holy,But I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.2

The author of the first letter to Timothy was expressing a basic truth when he wrote, “The love of money is the root of all evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10a)

So…