Jesus -
We form the temple of Your body.
The words you spoke in Jerusalem echo in our ears. “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”
Help us discern what we need to drive out from today’s temple and what needs to be overturned.
Help us remember that Your temple is not a marketplace, so we honor Your creations instead of commodifying them.
Help us remember Your raising from the dead - an event that shifts how Your disciples perceive scripture, Your word, and our very lives.
May the zeal that consumed You, consume us.
Amen.