FAITH CAPSULE: Clean up your God given temple and not get whip of chords.

John 2:15

It is written, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” (1 Corinthians 3:16-17) Identify yourself by making known the type of temple you are. The thought of people around you does not matter, what counts before God is who you really are. The kind of business that transpires in you is the evidence of the kind of temple you are. The bible records that when the Passover of the Jews was at hand, Jesus visited Jerusalem. He does not make a careless move just as He divinely went to Jerusalem to correct an anomaly.  As written, “…and He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business.” (John 2:14) Christ found businesses in the temple that were not of God. What is He going to find in you when He shows up without warning? Jesus reacted to what He saw in the temple, “When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.  And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” (John 2:15-16) Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. He has not changed and he will not change. If you are one with the same kind of business conduct where He used a whip of cords, be expectant that Jesus will visit you your temple with a whip of cords.

As a temple of God, what transpires in your temple and what needs to be cleansed? After kicking out all that needed to be kicked out of the temple, the disciples “…Remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten me up.” (John 2:17). Evidently, until the zeal of God eats up a believer, then the possibility of having a clean temple is almost impossible. When there is zeal for God, He will move into our life; He will have His place in us and it becomes impossible to live without His zeal which generates a burning passion in us. To be zealous for God, the temple of God will require a non-compromising stand which calls for us to disallow self and have Christ fill us. It is possible for brethren to mistake you for keeping the temple clean while is t is awful and unreasonably out of line with God’s expectation. Clean up your God given temple and not get whip of chords.

Payer for today: Ask for the zeal of God to eat you up.