Day 27: The Temple

Jeremiah 7:1-11
*Mark
11:12-33 *
1 Corinthians 3:16-17




“And Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves...  He was teaching and saying, ‘Is it not written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations”?
   But you have made it a den of robbers.’ “
~Mark 11:15-17







Kicking tables, scattering chairs, Jesus cleanses the temple almost angrily...but can you blame him?
“Passive” is never a word that accurately describes Jesus.
Jesus is passionate about holiness. Vehement about justice. Fervent about worship and prayer.
...and sometimes, things need to be scrubbed in order to really be clean.
Do you think there are things Jesus would wants to cleanse now? In your own heart? In the church? In the city of Ocala or the United States?

 



Come to your Temple here with liberation
And overturn these tables of exchange
Restore in me my lost imagination
Begin in me for good, the pure change.
Come as you came, an infant with your mother,
That innocence may cleanse and claim this ground
Come as you came, a boy who sought his father
With questions asked and certain answers found,
Come as you came this day, a man in anger
Unleash the lash that drives a pathway through
Face down for me the fear the shame the danger
Teach me again to whom my love is due.

Break down in me the barricades of death
And tear the veil in two with your last breath.



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