Friday, November 23, 2018

Cleansing The Temple

St. Luke gives us an abbreviated version of the "cleansing of the temple", but his point is aptly made:
God's house is a house of prayer not a den of thieves. (cr. Lk 19: 46).  The Temple is a sacred place for worshiping the Almighty, the All-Holy God, Creator of heaven, earth and all that is in the universe.  Should it not be maintained as a place of reverent silence  in order to hear the tiny whisper of the Lord? (cf.1 Kgs 19:13). Yet, in the time of Jesus, it became a market place and a lucrative branch for the money changers.  Have our churches lost their aura of the sacred and become social meeting halls for petty conversation?
And can we extend this disrespect for the Temple of God to the Temple of the body?  There's a place that can use the force of Jesus to drive out the "thieves, deceivers and liars who have convinced us that these are not longer Temples of the Holy Spirit, but spas catering to our ever whim and desire.
Come, Jesus,, cleanse our temples and our hearts.
Bro. Rene

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