From a Christian perspective, one of the more telling pictures of divine anger is the cleansing of the Temple.\u00a0 John\u2019s version of the story goes like this:<\/p>\n
After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there for a few days.\u00a0 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, \u2018Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father\u2019s house a market-place!\u2019 His disciples remembered that it was written, \u2018Zeal for your house will consume me.\u2019 The Jews then said to him, \u2018What sign can you show us for doing this?\u2019 Jesus answered them, \u2018Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.\u2019 The Jews then said, \u2018This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?\u2019 But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.\u00a0 (John 2:12-22)<\/p>\n
What does this story tell us?<\/p>\n
What is the lesson in spiritual direction?\u00a0 The anger of God signals the dissonance between what God wants for us and the way in which we are living.\u00a0 The key to spiritual growth is prayerful attention to the distance between the two.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a Christian perspective, one of the more telling pictures of divine anger is the cleansing of the Temple.\u00a0 John\u2019s version of the story goes like this: After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there for a few days.\u00a0 The Passover of the Jews […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anger"],"yoast_head":"\n