The Money Changers in the Temple

 

Matthew21:12-13

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. “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.

The forest has been known to block

Our view of all the trees.

Likewise, we let familiar things

Obscure what each one sees.

We get caught up in “what we know”

And forget what is true.

We practice all the rituals

But we don’t include You.

We say the words we think we mean,

But still don’t understand

That words are hollow without faith

To live as You command.

You showed us the path we should walk

If we want to find You

Then we made changes here and there,

Just a small change or two,

Till we no longer saw the path

That You laid out ahead.

We saw the easy road we made,

And followed it instead.

So, now You come to Your temple

And whip us to our knees.

How dare You clear out our forest,

That we might see Your trees?