Devo: Passion Week- 1
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Turning Tables to Cursing Trees
Turning Tables to Cursing Trees
Hey everyone!
We are going to be switching up the devos for this week.
I am going to be bringing you devos this week and they are all going to be based on what Jesus went though his last week here on earth.
So buckle up as we begin this journey to cross and eventually to out of the tomb!
Yesterday was Palm Sunday!
Jesus rode in on a donkey and people were losing their minds!
They were taking off palm branches and laying down their coats as they were welcoming Jesus, who in their mind was a great and amazing prophet.
They shouted Hosanna Hosanna! Which means please save!
Then of course the grumpy ole Pharisees were all like tell them to knock it off!
And Jesus was like if they didn’t shout, the very stones would!
Could you imagine stones shouting! pretty crazy!
So after all of this Jesus and his crew heading into Jerusalem.
The Next day, Monday, as we celebrate it,
Jesus has a pretty exciting day.
We read in
That Jesus went into the temple and cleaned house!
Listen to this:
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
The temple had all of this stuff happening but it was typically outside.
Yet some of the big take aways were that they were exchanging money because the temple would only take idol free coin.
Also travels would come to Jerusalem to sacrifice for their sins and they could only afford a dove instead of a lamb because people were driving up the cost sooo much.
Jesus goes in and cleans up the place.
Let me remind you that the priest at the time had to approve this meaning that they allowed the selling of commercialism instead of making the temple a place of prayer and worship.
In our lives are we filling ourselves up with things that exchange our temple as it says
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
We are exchanging prayer and worship in our own lives for other things; the material, and worldly.
Maybe right now you need Jesus to come in and clean house!
I would invite you to pray to God asking Jesus to come and clean you out.
To search you and clean your body which is a temple.
It will not be fun or enjoyable but it a necessity in our walks.
That was the morning!
Jesus came out guns blazing!
Then again later in the morning:
In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?”
In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
I am sure Jesus was hungry after turning the tables!
I am sure Jesus was hungry after turning the tables!
So he goes to get a little food and sees that the fig tree was not bearing figs!
So he curses it!
While this may seem pretty pointless, and understand that Jesus it was not fig season.
Here is the deal:
When Jesus approached the fig tree with had leaves on it, leaves promises fruit.
But in the scene there was no fruit present.
The leaves which promised life, show emptiness.
You see in the leave on fig tree showed empty worship, which is what was present in the temple.
Then Jesus gives us a really clear picture of what would happen to the temple if empty worship continued, it would be cursed and die.
Is your christian life right now empty worship?
What are you filling your life with right now?
Does it fill you up spiritually or are you just biding your time?
Jesus came out guns blazing on day one: Monday-
So today is Monday and what better way to start Holy week then by getting on our knees and being real, open and honest with God right where we are.
Allow him to come in and clean out the temple- I pray that you ask him to search you deeply and that you dive into his matchless love this week.
We will see you tomorrow, know that you are loved.