Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Friday, November 22nd, and we’ll be reading Luke 19, 49-48.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Luke 19, 45-48.
And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold sin to them.
It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.
And he was teaching daily in the temple the chief priests and the scribes, and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people hung upon his words.
Most weeks I go grocery shopping with my mom.
She makes a list and splits it between me, her, and my brother to do the shopping.
She says it’s a good life lesson, because some days when we grow up and don’t live with my parents anymore, we will know how to shop for groceries.
Some weeks though, I ask my mom if she can go later, so I can stay home.
I just don’t always feel like walking the aisles, hearing the loud people, pushing the carts around, and squeezing around each other.
A grocery store can be a very noisy, distracting place.
Can you imagine trying to pray or read your Bible in the middle of the store?
When Jesus went to the temple, he saw lots of things he did not like.
There were men selling animals and changing money right inside the temple.
People were trying to make money from others who were going there to worship God, and they distracted people from worshiping God.
Is there anything you can think that distracts you from worshiping God?
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dear God, thank you for forgiving when I do sinful things.
Please remove things from my life that don’t honor you.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back next week, scattering more flowers.
See ya!