BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY:
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. (Matthew 21:12-15)
THOUGHT:
When Jesus goes places, he changes things. He looks at wrong things and makes them right whether it's a sick body or cash-focused worship practices. These "wonderful things" are often misunderstood by "teachers of the law," yet children recognize these acts. This "Jesus change" is what eventually got Jesus killed. He was too active. He was too out there. He was too much on mission. The beauty of Jesus' life unfortunately provokes a reaction: the threat of death.CHALLENGE:
What if Jesus came to your house and called it a house of prayer? What would be different? What would he be praying for? What if he called our campus a house of prayer? Sit on Old Campus. Or Cross Campus. Or the Green. Imagine Jesus approaching others. What is he doing? What is he saying? If you feel led, do those same things. Note: there will be pushback. It's the same threat that represents death even if its manifestation is inaction. Push through that in prayer.
Peace,
Josh
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