Worship

Scripture

My wife is the queen of t-shirts. As long as I’ve known her it has been her first choice when it comes to clothing. I thought it would be something that would go away with post college adulthood, but boy have I been wrong. She picks up new shirts quite regularly and one of her most recent finds may rank among the best I’ve seen. The shirt reads: “This close to flipping tables like Jesus!” 

Obviously this shirt is a pun and is intended to be humorous but many may not know that it is actually biblical. In Mark chapter 11 we find the story that this shirt slogan was based off of. While in Jerusalem Jesus and his disciples come to the temple and begin to drive out all of the people who were trying to make money off of temple worship. They had turned the temple into a marketplace-obviously not what it was intended for.  I’m sure it looked a lot like fair on the square to use a Huntsville reference that everyone would understand. 

Mark 11:15-17 says, “And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables for the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.””

What was Jesus so up in arms about? The temple was not being used as it was intended. It had gone from a place of worship to a full blown street market/festival. The people there were missing the true purpose. How often do we allow this to happen in our own temples? Now that we have the Holy Spirit, our bodies have become the temple-the place where God’s spirit resides. Maybe it’s time we do a self assessment and get to flipping tables in our temples and clean things up so that true worship can take place!

Prayer

HONOR GOD

Take a moment and rejoice in the Lord to start your prayer time. Again… REJOICE!

ASK GOD

What do you need to ask God today? What’s on your heart?

SUBMIT TO GOD

The Lord is ready to lead you. Commit your life to following Him!
CLOSING PRAYER

God, lead me to a closer and more intimate relationship with you. You are my one true blessing. You have been with me through ups and downs. Don’t let me make it about something else. It’s about you, God. In Jesus Name, Amen.