Thursday, January 30, 2025

January 30, 2025

Several days before Passover, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey colt. It symbolized the lamb being chosen as the sacrifice for the upcoming feast as required by the law of Moses. The people who lined the streets waving palm branches were also his followers and knew he was unique and different from the other religious leaders of that time. Because Jesus is a different kind of King, he made his way to the temple, symbolic of his spiritual kingdom. He went into the temple with a vengeance, turning over tables and running the money changers out, cleansing it from unrighteousness. The temple was suppose to be a house of prayer, not a den of thieves. Considering that we are now the temple of the Holy Spirit of God, are you a house of prayer or a den of thieves? Do you focus your life on Jesus or is it about making the next big windfall? Sometimes, we get off track of what is really important and lose what we should focus on: Jesus. If we turn our attention towards him, the rest will fall into place as it should. Stay keenly aware of your motives; you never want to experience Jesus coming into your temple with a vengeance to clean out the filth. Live a repentant life, thankfully praising Jesus for everything he has done. 

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. Matthew 21:12-13

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