The Earth as a Temple

Morning: Psalms 87, 90; Judges 9:22-25, 50-57; Acts 4:32-5:11

Evening: Psalm 136; John 2:13-25

For many of the indigenous peoples of the earth, the land and the heavens are holy – they honour and protect the earth as a holy place, where we are at one with the universe and with ourselves. Jesus throws the money-changers out of the Temple because they ruin the holy place of prayer, the place of meeting with God.  I cannot help thinking of the world as a Temple, too, and that it’s time we started treating it as the holy place of meeting that it is, and not just as a market-place, full of valuable resources and commercial opportunities.