Drive Out The Intruders

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Jesus Cleanses the Temple

⁴⁵ And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, ⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

⁴⁷ And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, ⁴⁸ but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

The merchants who placed themselves strategically in the temple really had no right to be there, as Jesus dramatically demonstrated by driving them out.  The people who "hung on his words" had it right.  

We can so easily be side-tracked by our families, jobs,  the endless list of "things to do", or the clutter of  junk mail and  unwanted catalogues that arrive daily and pile up on our desks, chairs and floors, not to mention the junk that appears on the internet..  And how about our minds besieged by "the news",  our plans, our wants, and our worries? Would that Jesus would come and cleanse us of all these things.  Well, he can and does when we STOP, sit or kneel quietly and let him drive out these intruders and allow his peace to replace them.  All we have to do is take some quiet time and picture him cleansing our "temples".

Bro. Rene