Jesus was angry, clearing out the temple, knocking over what had been “set up”.
I just love what He has shown me of His heart in this.
He said to them: It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer.”
”My house”, the place where God dwells.
This is a picture of our hearts.
Our hearts were created to be a place of prayer, a place of communion, of relationship.
Our Father wants us to pour out our hearts to Him and listen to His.
Oh friends, what have we “set up” there instead?
Too often our hearts have become a place of busyness, of bartering, and spending of the coins of our life in the exhausting desperate hope that we might have something to offer.
He does not want these offerings; our busyness breaks His heart and misses the created point of ours. His house, our hearts were intended to be a place of relationship.
Oh Spirit of Jesus, in your mercy, come and cleanse our hearts. Be relentless.
Psalm 139:23,24 “Search me, oh God, and know my heart;…see if there be any grievous way in me, (may we truly see that our busyness grieves His heart) and lead me in the everlasting way.”
Oh Jesus, lead us like the Shepherd You are. We have an enemy who deceives us and we have believed his lie. On own we cannot find the “everlasting way”, the way of relationship with You, the way our hearts were created to live. The way of Love,
We still our hearts and ask for these things in Your name. Amen
My friends, I have been so strengthened in my “journey of the heart” in the book by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge: “The Sacred Romance”. I cannot encourage you enough to get this book and read it slowly, allowing your heart to believe it could be true for you.
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