“So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.”
John 2:15 (NIV)
Our Lord revealed His glory by changing the water into wine,
and He revealed His heart by clearing the temple.
The disciples believed in Him because of the miracle at the wedding,
but the disciples remembered what David prophesied when Jesus cleared the temple.
Zeal is defined as great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause.
Consume is defined as eat, drink, ingest, or use up.
These words together describe our Lord as being so enthusiastic about seeing true worship of God occur that He was willing to be used up, to be eaten so that true worship of God would occur.
We can see from His prophecy about being killed that He understood exactly what confronting this false worship system would bring for Him.
They loved Him for changing water into wine, but He wouldn’t trust Himself to them, for He knew that inside of each person is a rebellious heart that resents, rejects and strikes out at any initiative to purify our worship.
We call ourselves followers of Christ, peacemaker is a name we love to carry for our Saviour came to bring peace to those who near and those who are far away.
How many of us “peacemakers” are willing to be consumed by zeal for God’s house?
It starts with us for we are God’s house - deny yourself, put yourself to death- biblical Words that describe being consumed in order to purify make our worship true and pure.
May zeal for God’s house consume each of us today!
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