Monday, April 3
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE MONDAY BEFORE EASTER?
On the way back into the city from Bethany, where Jesus and the 12 spent the night, Jesus became hungry. Seeing a fig tree, with no fruit on it, though it was full of leaves, and that should have been full of fruit, Jesus spoke a curse on the tree. Jesus went to the temple on Monday and confronted those making a profit off of the people coming to worship there.
“Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers 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. “Matthew 21:12–13.
Those who heard and witnessed Jesus miraculous healings that day, sang praises to him, which caused authorities to begin looking for a way to kill him. The gospel of Luke says:
they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words. Luke 19:48.
Pray a prayer of willingness:
To be pruned, so that the tree of our lives has the fruit that feeds in its season.
To be practising the communion of prayer in the temple of our lives, and not let it become all about our self-gain.
