Deuteronomy 9:4-12
Psalms 45, 47, 48
Hebrews 3:1-11
John 2:13-22
John 2: 13-22
When
Jesus entered Jerusalem and saw the extent to which the true purpose of the
temple was being undermined, He took corrective action in very dramatic fashion. The people of Israel had lost sight of God’s
desire and had gone their own way. When
He told the parable of the temple being destroyed and then raised after three
days, His true meaning was lost on those to whom he spoke. They were oblivious to the fact that Jesus
was referring to His own body and not the blocks of stone in front of
them. They could not or would not hear
His words. Even with 2,000 years
separating us from these events, we find ourselves in a situation not wholly
unlike that of the Israelites in Jesus’ time.
God speaks to us and oftentimes it is our nature to hear what we want to
hear. What we want is immeasurably
inferior to what God intends, so we must learn from biblical accounts such as
these to avoid the pitfalls to which our stubbornness can lead.
Mark Ramey, Jr.