PURE HEART

Mark 11:15-19  And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.  And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.  And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."  And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.  And when evening came they went out of the city. JESUS had a way of hacking off the status quo of the JEWISH ELITE.  The "chief priests and the scribes" were offended that the way THEY had approved for everyone to worship was being challenged.   I need to be careful NOT to allow myself to fall into a "tradition" that is not scripture ordained.  I can allow myself to say or do things simply because "we have always done it like that" and it not because it comes from my heart.   GOD deserves and requires me to have a clean heart to come to HIM!  The only way my heart can be cleansed is through the sacrifice that JESUS made for me on Calvary.   Thank You JESUS!