Bringin Down the House

hmmm. Well it's 2:30 in the morning and i'm finally dragging in from a fun night of bowling with my boys. I now think that i am possibly addicted to cigarettes because of all the second-hand smoke i inhaled, but that's another thought for another day. The past week has been crazy.. as you might've already read. But another thought that i have been mulling over in my brain is what would it be like to travel back to when Jesus walked the earth and see Him. like, PHYSICALLY see him as you are seeing and touching your computer right now.

The thought is mind boggling is it not? One of my favorite stories of Jesus is when He just goes beserk on the people trying to make a profit by selling stuff in the temple... in HIS temple. Here, let me set the scene for you:
"Tear Down this Temple" (even the title sounds pretty cool)
"When the Passover Feast, celebrated each spring by the Jews, was about to take place, Jesus traveled up to Jerusalem. He found the Temple teeming with people selling cattle and sheep and doves. The loan sharks were also there in full strength. Jesus put together a whip out of strips of leather and chased them out of the Temple, stampeding the sheep and cattle, upending the tables of the loan sharks, spilling coins left and right. he told the doves merchants, 'Get your things out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a shopping mall!' Thats when the disciples remembered the Scripture, 'Zeal for your house consumes me.'" John 2: 13-17 The Message

So... could you imagine literally, like LITERALLY seeing this? My favorite part is when Jesus is making the whip. I can't imagine the look in His eyes as He watches them defy His temple. Huh, here's a sobering thought for me and you, do you think He looks at us the same way when we do crap that outright, straight up, no holds bar defies Him and His temple? Think about it. But anyways, the look alone would make my heart stop. To see him tearing each strip of leather and tying each knot on the whip... I want to be right there behind Him just to kinda get the full scale of this passage in the Bible. And another thing, most likely, Jesus wasn't some scrawny guy. He was a carpenter. Not one who had power tools and a butt crack hanging out his pants, but he did everything physically. So more than likely, He was ripped. So to read how he flipped over tables and over powered everyone in there, (these tables were more than likely solid wood. not cheap light plastic ones) is pretty freakin cool. So to see Him doing all of this, AND not sinning, is possible the coolest thing every.

I love the part where it says "Zeal for your house consumes me." Another thought. Why doesn't zeal (or passion) consume us when we see people defy God's temple? Are we (i say we including me) scared? scared to get looked down upon? scared to lose a job? lose a friend? lose a life maybe? Another thought that has been in my head, completely off subject by the way but nonetheless a good thought, is why are we afraid of death? If death is all that we have to be "afraid of", then by all means bring it on. that's the final step to getting to God! So anyways, off that rabbit trail, why are we not passionate when stuff happens that affends God?? Passion for God is an all consuming fire, burning in the depths of our soul, waiting to be unleashed! So why not go for it and unleash it on someone and quite possibly change thier life for the greater good? Because after all, we are involved in an Epic far greater than our own?