Busy for God, Blind to Christ

There is a man in Scripture who gets overlooked every time we read John 2. He doesn't have a name. He never speaks. But he is the warning.

He is the man who loved the temple more than the God of it.

He showed up. He kept the traditions. He worked the system. He had zeal — real, burning, religious zeal. But his zeal was aimed at the building, not the King standing inside it.

Jesus walked into that temple and cleaned house. Not because the building wasn't important. But because the building had become the point.

There's a husband who puts everything he has into the house. — fixes it up, keeps it sharp, takes pride in every corner — while his wife sits alone in the next room and never feels any of it.

John 2:17 says the disciples remembered it was written, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." Christ's zeal was personal. It was consuming. And it was aimed at the Lord of the house — not the house itself.

That's the standard. One question remains:

What are you doing with Christ?

Not with church attendance. Not with your theological positions. Not with the religious identity you wear in public. What are you doing with Him?

Because you can be busy for God your whole life and never once let Him move into the temple He purchased. Dead religious zeal is pollution in God's sight. It always has been.

Clean house. Let Him in.

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Pastor Fortunato
Founding Pastor & Preacher of the Word.
Pilgrim Baptist Church — Cookeville, Tennessee

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