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Wednesday: Our Intended Purpose

Posted by kenneth - 07/04/09 at 01:04:50 pm

On the Road to Calvary

This week we will explore a few of the many events that took place during the week prior to Christ’s crucifixion and his resurrection from the dead on the first day of the week, the day we call Easter. Let us walk with Jesus as he walked those last steps of his life on the road to Calvary.

WEDNESDAY, April 8
Reading: Matthew 21:12-17
Jesus at the Temple
12Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13″It is written,” he said to them, ” ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”
14The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
16″Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. ”Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, ” ‘From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise’?”
17And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.

Devotional: Our Intended Purpose

As a child, did you ever go exploring at your grandparents’ house and discover an interesting object and you did not know what it was? Maybe you’ve been shopping at a yard sale or antique shop and saw an item for which you had to ask the owner, “What exactly is this and what was it used for?” As adults, we may even possess objects that our own children or grandchildren have to ask us about. And if we do not pass on this information to them, its use may be lost at our death.

In today’s scripture passage, this is what happened with the temple. It angered Jesus and he drove out the money changers. He then re-established the temple’s intended purpose as “A House of Prayer”. He called it “His House”.

When we give our life to Jesus, we are then “His House of the Holy Spirit”. Let us ask our Maker, “What was my original intended purpose? What did You create me to do?” God alone knows, and if we ask him to re-establish that purpose, he will drive out everything that hinders and even blocks us from becoming all that he wants us to be.

Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. ~ Proverbs 19:21

Prayer: Jesus, please help me let you re-establish your original intended purpose in my life. I confess sometimes I don’t even know what that is. Thank you that you are waiting and willing to drive out all that hinders my development in you. Amen.

Emmaus Church