WHAT WOULD I SAY?

This week in our Come Follow Me curriculum is the study of the destruction in the New World at Christ's crucifixion and His ultimate visit to the Nephites who were spared. I love the site Book of Mormon Central for getting insights into the week's scriptures that may not have occurred to me. 

This morning, I watched a presentation called One-by-One from Book of Mormon Central.  One of the presenters (Taylor) described the moment when Jesus invited the people to come to Him one at a time and feel the nail prints in His hands and feet.  He asked that If you were there, what would you say to Him?" Of all the possibilities - I love you, thank you, the one that came first to my mind was Forgive me!

I immediately began to second guess myself (I do that a lot!) but even as I sat with it for awhile, I truly believe that is what I would say - that is, if I could actually say anything being so overwhelmed by emotion and awe.  Forgive me!

Taylor then mentioned that the scripture says that the crowd said "Hosanna." We use Hosanna a lot, most notably in the Hosanna Shout in our most solemn assemblies.  The crowd in Jerusalem also shouted hosanna when Jesus entered the city on what we now call Palm Sunday.  What does hosanna mean?

Tyler (the other presenter) is a language exert and Hebrew scholar.  He pointed out that the word comes from two Hebrew roots:

hosa or hosea, which is an actual root from which Jesus' name (Jesua) is derived.

na means, among other things, save.  

That says to me that hosanna means Jesus save me!" 

I was right on target all along.

What would His answer be to me? I think it would be: "I already have."

© Kathleen Rawlings Buntin Danielson September 2020