Hung On His Words

 Luke 19: 45-48

Jesus at the Temple

⁴⁵ When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. ⁴⁶ “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer' but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.^]”

⁴⁷ Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. ⁴⁸ Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.

 Can we imagine the pressure and stress on Jesus as he comes to the end of his public ministry and sees his Father's House so desecrated?  No wonder the money tables were flying; yet he continued teaching when he knew that his days were limited.  A marvelous example for us as we work our way to a bare-bones Thanksgiving, so out of step with our normal family celebrations....May we hang on his words as did the people, and hear him encourage us to trust, to have patience, and the accept "what we cannot change, and change the things we can."

Bro. Rene