Saint Category Heading Goes Right Here.
View All Saint Titles
Let God Overturn Your Life
3 min
Gospel
Jn 2:13-22
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; you shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for thy house will consume me.” The Jews then said to him, “What sign have you to show us for doing this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he spoke of the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
Readings are taken from Dynamic Catholic’s Bible: RSV Catholic Edition.
It’s time to take back your life.
It’s time to slow down to the speed of joy.
All revolutions have a moment when they begin. This is your moment.
Transcript
Let God Overturn Your Life
What jumps out at you today? Jesus going through the temple. You know, he's got his whips and he's getting everything out of the temple, and he's turning over the money changes. I'm sure people go crazy, right?
There's a great temptation when we read the Scriptures to develop this otherness, this situation where we see ourselves in Jesus and the disciples, and we see other people in all the other stuff going on. The reality is that wisdom is to learn to see ourselves in every person in the Scriptures, to see ourselves in every situation in the Scriptures.
And so today, to ask ourselves, "Okay, you might be living a good life, but there might be one aspect of your life that Jesus wants to come in, you know, with the whips and turn over the tables, and he wants to cast that out of your life." And so, you know, Jesus was talking about the temple of his body. They were talking about the temple of the temple.
You know, we're taught that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. And what does God want to cast out of your life at this moment? What does God want to overturn in your life? The same way he overturned the money changes tables, what does Jesus want to overturn in your life right now? And will we wait for him to come in and do it, or will we invite him to say, "Jesus, this needs overturning in my life.
Come and help me overturn this"? Have a great day. And remember, Be Bold. Be Catholic.
Share
