A New Insight

It truly amazes me how one can read a certain passage of scripture dozens of times and then all of a sudden one day see something or get an insight you never got before .Such a thing happened this morning as I was reading in the Book of John where Jesus barrels into the temple in Jerusalem and goes on what I would consider a major purge or de-cluttering (my spring-flinging sprees wouldn't even come close ) of all the tables and selling that's going on at this House Of God Farmer's Market. Now I know there are church sales ,suppers ,flea markets and such that take place in our community churches but I'm sure I've never shopped in the sanctuary or dug through a box beside the pulpit .  This big sale was in the Holy Place .Animals and birds everywhere . Feathers and dung soiling sacred griund!  Dishonest moneychangers taking advantage of the poor .I'm pretty sure had I been there I would have been right beside Jesus upending tables and letting myself myself be heard . I might have landed myself in the clink but it would have been worth it . There's no doubt in my mind that Jesus's mother and His disciples were hoping Jesus would settle Himself down and get a grip as most likely wild actions of this sort would definitely not be appreciated no matter how Holy based they were . And as would be expected ,it was demanded of Jesus to inform some sort of miracle sign to prove He possessed the authority to go on such a rampage . But quite honestly I would have expected Him to be thrown in a dank old cell  for such shananigans .So Jesus gives them something to chew on when He tells them to destroy the temple and He would raise it back up in three days. Of course this goes right over their heads as they have no clue that He is talking of what will happen soon on the Cross   so they just go on thinking He is quite deranged .Now this next part is where I see something I had never paid attention to before . After the Temple -Tantrum ,Jesus continues performing miracles and He's racking up a fair number of followers . But in verse 24 and 25 of John 2 it says,But Jesus would not entrust himself to them ,for he knew all men .He did not need man's testimony about man .for he knew what was in man .   Wow ! Up to this point I had always just assumed in my own pea-brain that Jesus being a humble and plainJane would be uncomfortable with heaps of praise being showered upon Him and he certainly never appeared to let His Greatness go to his head .But Jesus had no need for the approval or any accolades from people as all of His trust and confidence came from God .Everything he did was for the glory of His Father .There's nothing man could do to puff up His ego or even to keep Him on a roll of  miracles because none of what he did or said was about Jesus ,it was all about God . What a revelation for me today ! My life is not about me .My life and all I say and do  has nothing to do with me  but is to be  for the glory of my Lord . Oh boy ,does this give ME something to chew on !