So I know it’s
been so long since I've just written here on my blog, but today I just felt the
need. I am right in the middle of doing my three week training with my
organization, which is a requirement for me to go full-time, and I'm at the part where we do a study called Kairos. In Greek I
am told that Kairos means the perfect time, or when a time is fully fulfilled.
It is an incredible study on God's heart for missions and how He has called
each of us to participate in that with Him. It has been so good and I would
whole heartedly recommend it, even though it hasn't been an easy course.
This week has
been such a challenge and it's only day two. I have known with my head so much
of what they are talking about, but many things I never allowed to get fully to
my heart. This week though the message is getting all the way deep down into
every ventricle.
One of the
things we are learning about is that the temple of God now is us, and applying what God
says about His temple to us. Through Isaiah and Jesus, God says, "My
Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations." This was
originally said by Isaiah and then Jesus quoted this several times after He drove the people out of the
court of the Gentiles in the temple. In our study we talked about the reason
why Jesus was so angry was because that part of the temple was supposed to be a
place for people from all over the world could come and know God and worship
Him. However because of these money changer and venders, those who came to
worship God and know Him more were hindered from coming to Him. Then during the
study we were challenged to ask ourselves the question, "What does our
temple look like?"
While looking at
my own heart, I have started the process of allowing Jesus to come in and turn over my tables, knowing fully that He is cleansing me and asking Him for forgiveness and what must I do to change? Asking the all important question, "What do you want Your
temple to look like Jesus?
As I walk on
this journey with Him, I know that He will guide me in every day change through
the process of being holy, through the exchange of old self to new self, and to
see His glorious kingdom come, knowing that it first came in my heart
and then will go out my mouth to invite all of those lost to be found and to come and
worship at the feet of Him who has saved us all!
Although I know
that this training is going to be only the beginning of this very very busy
preparing process, I know that God is doing something great and is going to prepare me in every way for
this next step. So I will walk in His truth, learn from Him, and trust Him that
He has it all in His hands. He is just showing me so much and I am so excited
to see what He is going to do!
Mark 11:15-17, "When they arrived back in Jerusalem,
Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people buying and selling
animals for sacrifices. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and
the chairs of those selling doves, and he stopped everyone from using the
Temple as a marketplace.He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple
will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into
a den of thieves.”
