Turning Tables

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Turning Tables

Matthew 21:12-16 NIV

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. [13] “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.’” [14] The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. [15] But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. [16] “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “ ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”

Jesus told

Us to love our

Enemies,

To turn the

Other cheek,

Or as my Nonna used

To say

Love the sinner

Hate the sin

But when things got

Bad

When Things went

Out if control

As the Synagogue

Became a place of

Commerce instead of

Worship

Jesue turned

The tables!

Sometimes loving

One Another

Looks like staying

Like being a shoulder

Being God's arms

On this earth

But other times

It means knowing

When to step

Away

When knowing

This is not okay!

Like the mixed up

World today

When Black and

White are all

Are blurred

All you

See are shades of gray!

But Jesus is not the author

Of confusion,

His ways

Are clear

His beautiful

Grace evident!

And yet so many

Of us struggle

We believe

But to much gray

Distorts

Our vision

And all I can

Think of

Is Jesus

Turning those

Tables!

He leads us

His direction

His path

He's never

Lost

But he's there

Even when

We wander away

Into those shades of

Gray

But we have

A direction

It's clear

Go where Christ

Leads!

Copyright Michelle R Kidwell

June.14.2025