Den of Robbers
Matthew 21:12-13 [12] Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. [13] “It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” What is there in my own temple that has become what it shouldn't be? The money changers and merchants capitalized on opportunity from the need the temple presented. Their services weren't unneeded but sorely misplaced and misdirected. What in my own life has become my money changers? Something that is a good thing, even a necessary thing, but misplaced in its importance and distracting from what my temple is called to do? If I am called to be a house of prayer, am I worrying? Do I sit and overthink? Am I attempting to fix things on my own or allowing my relationship and communication with the Father to lead and dictate my actions? If I am to be a hous...