Love Remains Holy WeekSample

Jarring. The first story Matthew tells us after Jesus triumphantly enters Jerusalem is jarring. Like many times before, Jesus went to the temple courts to teach. However, upon entering the temple courts on this particular morning, he was saddened and angered at what he saw. What was intended to be a place of worship was now a bustling market; the place for people to come and meet with God was now filled with the shouts of vendors trying to make a deal. 

The heartache of people being distracted, unable to experience the presence of God, was unbearable for Jesus. He began to overturn their tables driving out money changers and those who were selling “religious” goods. His actions were jarring, but the distractions stopped. 

The blind and lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 

Jesus was disruptive so that people could come to know and experience the love of God.

God’s love is disruptive. It disrupts the things we think will save us but are actually destroying us.

Read Matthew 21: 12-17 again, and ask what is God saying to you?