"Jesus went into the Temple." This was the Temple where He'd been "presented" to the Lord and welcomed by Simeon and Anna. It was where His mother heard those words about His destiny as Saviour and Light of the World, and about the sword that would pierce her own heart. It was the place where He was for a few days, when people thought He was "lost." He was really doing His Father's work, though Mary and Joseph didn't understand that. Later, He would refer to Himself, His own body, as the "temple" that would be destroyed - and His enemies thought He was desecrating the sacred building. He told the woman at the well that the Jerusalem temple would be replaced as the centre of worship. Instead of a construction of stone and precious metals, there would be His Body, formed by the lives and hearts of His followers, each of them a temple of the Holy Spirit.

When now Jesus comes into the temple that I am, what does He find there? What "business" is going on in my mind and heart that distracts me from being a "house of prayer"?