Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned tables of the money changers and benches of those selling doves and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And he taught them, he said, "Is it not written:
"My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'
But you have made it 'a den of robbers.'" (Mark 11:15-17)
Sometimes Jesus just needs to clean house... In our wickedness we allow so many things to impose on the temple. Worldly things. Jesus comes in and overturns the tables. As a youth group we need to be aware of this. There are practices and things that we do that could be looked at as repulsive to Jesus. We need to invite him into our temple to clean house. To strip us down to the bare essentials so we can just focus on God. And we should make every effort to be a house of prayer for all nations. We need to make the basement in our church, where we meet, a house of prayer for all nations. Where we can do the intercession needed for our family and friends, for our city, for the surrounding area, and for the nations. Let's search out Jesus' desire for our youth group. Let's allow him to clean house and realign our focus on the things that matter.
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