Lent - Day 7

       I love to travel.  I have a fairly extensive list of places I have been to and the list of places I would like to visit is even more extensive. On of the areas I'd love to visit is the middle east, the Holy lands. Have you seen the great Temple in Jerusalem? Oh, that's right, it was destroyed in 70 AD!

      It seems to me that there is a long list of things we can place our trust in or count on and every single thing pales in comparison to God. I will again quote Comso Castorini from Moonstruck, "Everything is temporary. That don't excuse nothin!" So where do you put your trust, in something or someone temporary? What are you, crazy? Everything will pass, mountains change, building fall, empires collapse but God's love is enduring.

        As a meditation for today, something on the simple side. Yes, nothing is simple, but ere goes. Where do you place your trust? Is God in that equation in any way?  If we believe in the continued aspect of existence, our heavenly inheritance, what do we place our trust in to foster that growth and rebirth? 

       Christ will rebuild the temple in 3 days. That got quite a bit of scorn, raised eyebrows and perhaps some chuckles from the crowd. Do we hedge our bets, trying to balance this world with the next?  It really is a question we need to address. Lent seems like a good time to do so. 

John 2:13-22

 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.