"Then Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the merchants from their stalls. He told them, 'The Scriptures declare, "My Temple will be a place of prayer," but you have turned it into a den of thieves.'"
Those words leapt out at me tonight.
What an ironic scene: the Prince of Peace overturning tables and dismantling displays, throwing everyone off guard with his conviction to preserve what God has set apart.
Christ shows his love for the Church and his love for God in this moment.
For the Church, he shows his desire for an unaltered space, sanctified for communication and worship of God, that is not distracted or tainted in any way.
For God, he shows a core reverence that says God is to be the center of all things and His glory is not to be diminished.
It's what Christ does when He enters the Temple now. He overturns all earthly tables that glitter and shine, all unworthy distractions that commit thievery in our hearts to make way for a perfect and holy path to pray to God.
May Jesus enter into our Temples, our bodies, and overturn the distracting merchant tables of earthly investments to clear the way for worship to take shape.
"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God: this is your spiritual act of worship."
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