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Can you imagine Jesus being angry?
It’s an uncomfortable thought. But a crucially necessary one. Jesus aims his anger at the corruption that had filled the temple. People were now coming to the temple to barter and do business as opposed to worshipping the living God. In other words, they came to see what they could get as opposed to asking what they could give.

True worship is about serving God and not seeking to be served.

God’s desire is to have a genuine relationship with us, not a transactional one.  


MATTHEW 21:12–17

12 Jesus entered the temple courts 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.'"

14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, "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, Lord, have called forth your praise'?" 17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.



What "tables" in your heart need overturning to make room for a genuine relationship with God? Do you approach God only seeking to get something from Him?



Lord, just as You cleansed the temple, cleanse my heart. Remove any distractions or impurities that hinder my relationship with You. Give me a new heart, focused solely on worshiping You.