Fri.’s Devo - The Wisdom of Jesus

Read Luke 19:45- 20:8 Jesus had to cleanse the temple before he died. It was not suppose to be a place where people could buy their sacrifices and pay God off. Neither was it to be a place where people made huge deceitful profits. In my years I have seen many big ministries “cleansed” as God revealed their deceitful ways before all the world. It is very humbling and hard to watch but it is God’s job to reveal things in darkness and expose the truth. Jesus said that his house was to be a house of prayer. We are the temple of God and our temples are to be a place of prayer and total surrender to God. It is not to be filled with intents of getting rich by deceit or where we try to manipulate God. Our secret places are completely open to God. There is no hiding from him our actions or thoughts. Jesus could now teach in the temple and the chief priests and the scribes grew to hate him more and more while the people came to love him more and more. So one day the “haters” came to trick him and asked him who gave him the authority to speak as he did and do the things he did since it did not come from them. Jesus knew their scheme so he answered with a question: “I will also ask you one thing; and answer me; The baptism of John, was it from heaven , or of men?” They were caught in their own game. When they couldn’t answer without incriminating themselves he told them that since they wouldn’t answer his question, then he didn’t have to answer theirs. What a good answer. I sometimes forget that I don’t have to answer to the enemies taunts. I can play his game and win if I rely on the Holy Spirit instead of my own emotions. Lord, help us to remember that we have the Holy Spirit inside us that can give us the wisdom of Jesus. We can know how to fight the devil effectively instead of mechanically. Lord, give us ears to hear.