Light Reflection-Isaiah 56:7b House of Prayer

JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Light Reflection is from Isaiah 56:7b.

My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

This yearning came to light in the actions of Jesus when He cleansed the temple by overturning the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. He expressed these words from Isaiah and then added, “But you are making it a den of robbers.”

Jesus had zeal for the temple to be a place of worship. That is why He cleared the corruption that was evident there. That is not the only temple that He seeks to purify. The Bible tells us that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. In love, He seeks to purify our faith, so that our body is a place of sincere worship.

Jesus is willing to overturn the idols of our heart and the circumstances of our lives, not for the purpose of destroying us, but to cleanse us and set us free to worship God in spirit and in truth.

This Light Reflection inspires us to offer our bodies to God as houses of worship in the Year to Shine.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com