IJUMAA TAREHE 5 NOVEMBA 2021, ASUBUHI.
Mathayo 21:12-17
12 Yesu akaingia ndani ya hekalu, akawafukuza wote waliokuwa wakiuza na kununua hekaluni, akazipindua meza za wabadili fedha, na viti vyao waliokuwa wakiuza njiwa;
13 akawaambia, Imeandikwa, Nyumba yangu itaitwa nyumba ya sala; bali ninyi mmeifanya kuwa pango la wanyang’anyi.
14 Na vipofu na viwete wakamwendea mle hekaluni, akawaponya.
15 Lakini wakuu wa makuhani na waandishi walipoyaona maajabu aliyoyafanya, na watoto waliopaza sauti zao hekaluni, wakisema, Hosana, Mwana wa Daudi! Walikasirika,
16 wakamwambia, Wasikia hawa wasemavyo? Yesu akawaambia, Naam; hamkupata kusoma, Kwa vinywa vya watoto wachanga na wanyonyao umekamilisha sifa?
17 Akawaacha, akatoka nje ya mji mpaka Bethania, akalala huko.
Mwenye haki ataishi kwa imani;
Katika utaratibu wa kumtolea Mungu sadaka, wayahudi walikuwa na utaratibu wa kubadilishana vitu kwa fedha, ili na wenye vitu wapate fedha ya kutoa sadaka hekaluni. Lakini Ilifikia hatua ikageuka biashara hekaluni. Yesu hakufurahishwa na jambo hili, akatengua meza zao kutakasa hekalu.
Kuna uwezekano wa baadhi yetu kwenda kanisani kwa ratiba tu, kwa mazoea. Yaani tunapaona Kanisani kama sehemu nyingine yoyote!
Lakini zaidi, tupo tunaoishi maisha ya mazoea. Tunaona dhambi ni jambo la kawaida tu! Sisi tumeumbwa kwa mfano wa Mungu. Kuona dhambi iko kawaida ni sawa na kuifanya nyumba ya Mungu pango la wanyang'anyi. Yesu atatutengua.
Hima fanya matengenezo ya maisha yako, uwe mtu wa ushuhuda kwa utukufu wa Mungu. Kanisa kuwa nyumba ya sala ni maelekezo kwetu kuishi kwa neno la Mungu, sala na matendo ya huruma. Nini nafsi yako katika hili?
Siku njema
FRIDAY 5TH NOVEMBA 2021, MORNING
Matthew 21:12-17 NIV
Jesus at the Temple
12 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,’[a] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[b]”
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’[c]?”
17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.
Footnotes
- Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
- Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11
- Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)
The righteous just shall live by faith;
In the practice of offering to God, the Jews had a system of exchanging items for money, so that believers could have money to offer in the temple. But it got to the point where it turned into a temple business. Jesus was not pleased with this, and he upturned the tables in the temple.
It is possible for some of us to go to church habitually. That is, we see the Church as any other place!
But more than that, we are living a life of habit. We see sin as normal! We are made in God's image. To see sin as normal is the same as to make the house of God a den of robbers. Jesus will disown us.
Make changes in your life, be a witness to the glory of God. The Church being a house of prayer is a guide for us to live by God's word, prayer and acts of mercy. Where does your soul stand in this?
Good day