Imagine trading currency in a foreign land and getting a fraction of what you money is worth?

 

You use a $10 bill to get $3.58.

 

And imagine using that money that you exchanged to buy something 5 times its value?

 

You pay $30 for a $6 item.

 

If you can envision those things, you have an idea of what the Jews were experiencing at the temple.

 

Oppression from the Roman empire was one thing…..but then to be ripped off by their own people—that was another.

 

Matthew 21 12 Jesus entered the temple area 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.’ ”

 

Proverbs 11:1 says that “dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord”……

 

But here is a greater truth:  The Lord hates it when people get ripped off…..

 

He hates it when YOU get ripped off.

 

The world can be a tough place.  We can be chewed up and spit out so easily by people who care nothing about us…..and we are often measured and identified solely on our performance….

 

It makes it so easy to lose track of the one thing that we should really be focusing on:  LOVE.

 

God’s LOVE for us and our LOVE for Him and for those around us.

 

And yet…..that is the only thing that really matters.

 

So remember today…..

 

God is not against you…..He is for you.

He is not punishing you for falling short……He is receiving you for who you are.

He is not expecting something from you…..He is desiring to give something to you.

 

When you receive the Lord….when you are as John 1 invites…..born again…….

You are no longer a slave……you are a son.

You are no longer an enemy…..you are a child of the king.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TkUMJtK5k

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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