FAITH CAPSULE: Understand and know to be zealous for God.

John 2

The documentation of the life of Jesus is what it means to have a zeal for God.
John 2:13-17 records demonstration of the zeal of Jesus, “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. 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!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up”.
To have the zeal for God is living life for God by seeking God diligently.
The zeal of Jesus is documented for our learning to know what it means to live life for the glory of God.
Zeal for God is the evidence of boldness and character, a winning combination for a believer of the word of God.
Without the zeal for God, there will be no boldness and character for the acclaimed believer of the word of God to flush out activities of the world in the temple of God. 
Are you zealous for God?
One with zeal for God will always stand against the world of disobedience by looking into the word of God with action. 
Jesus could not look away from world activities in the temple but drove, pour and overturn all wicked world activities outside of the temple of God.
You are the temple of God that should not be full of activities that are not of God. 
Bible identifies the temple of God, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)  
With the zeal for God, one will recognize that the house of God is not the house of merchandise but to stand against the merchandise of the world.
One with the zeal for God will not compromise the word of God in the temple of God.
The boldness and character of Jesus, the evidence of His zeal for God, is the reason why His disciples said, “…Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up” (John 2:17) Just like Jesus until you are eaten up by the things of God, you cannot be full of God!
To be eaten up by the zeal for God is one that is build up by the word of God and meditating the word of God day and night.
Why not desire to become one that is eaten up by the zeal of God?
It is wise to engage prayer, not a determination to become one with the zeal for God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal of God to eat you up, that you will live life for God.