Matthew 21:2 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’?” 17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.
Jesus has entered Jerusalem in fulfillment of the Scriptures, and now it’s crunch time. The disciples might have had an inkling that things were building to a climax, but they probably anticipated that this would be the time when Jesus would FINALLY have to abandon all this humility and show himself for what he really was, the one true Messiah who would deliver Israel. Even though Jesus had been trying to advise the disciples all along that he would have to die, they refused to believe it. After all, why should a man who could raise others from the dead have to die himself. No! At the last minute, Jesus was going to pull off a miracle.
Jesus’ first actions once he entered Jerusalem were to cleanse the temple and then to heal the blind and the lame who were already in the temple. Traditionally, anyone who was maimed was not supposed to enter the main part of the temple; however, these people were probably in the outer court, next to the money changers and those selling livestock. There were also children in the outer courts of the temple. Those kids knew miracles when they saw them, and they were shouting “Hosanna to the Son of David!”
Signs and wonders were happening all over the place, and meanwhile the sour religious leaders could only be indignant. How many of those men would later repent and beg God for one single miracle? We will never know. We only know that when God was manifesting His mighty power, those who claimed to represent Him were both blind and lame – blind because they did not recognize Jesus as Messiah, and lame because their religion had tied them up so that it was as if they had chains on their feet. Their religion kept them from following Jesus.
God has not changed; He is still the same. The same power that purified that temple, that healed the blind and the lame, is still available today. And throughout the world, God is still working. While many have died with COVID – 19, there have also been miraculous recoveries of very elderly people who might have died. While we grieve for the health workers who have died, let us remember that the vast majority of health workers are alive and working. Each one of these lives represents a miracle! Let us hold on to hope and thank God that He is still working!
PRAYER: Father God, thank you that your hand is not shortened, that your power to heal has not departed this earth! Father, protect those caring for COVID – 19 patients. Protect the family members of COVID – 19 victims. And help us to rejoice and be grateful at the healings you are bringing. In the mighty Name of Jesus. Amen.
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