Brick House

Most of us are familiar with the scripture: “And said unto them, ‘It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.’” Matthew 21:13 You know, it’s the scripture where Jesus gets angry with the “moneychangers.” Anyway, I started thinking about the term “house of prayer.” And I immediately thought of the song, Brick House” by the Commodores. I know the song’s subject matter is entirely different to the house of prayer issue. After all, the Commodores’ song sings the well-built praises of a physically attractive woman. Contrast that to God’s house of prayer... “…for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations." Isaiah 56:7 But shouldn’t you and I be as strongly built, as formidable in our prayers as an actual brick building?

Don’t we underestimate our own prayer power? After all… “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” James 5:16 It’s one of the biggest lies to believe our prayers don’t matter. Our bodies and our very beings are more important than just physical structures: “Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Are we brick houses then? Are you and I a house of prayer? Are we God’s Temple? Are we living that Truth? It’s Truth worth living! Copyright © 2013 by Sheryle Cruse