Jesus was upset because they were making the House of God a mockery.  For me this means that the Temple Courts is Holy ground and inside you have to respect it.  There is so much to say about this.  In my life I knew of God, I went to his Temple and grew up feeling forced to attend church as a child, dressing up in a dress, wearing a hat etc.  I was so rebellious and my attention was never with what the preacher was trying to say to me as I believed that you had to go to church so that people can see that you as a holy person.  But alas, going to church is not what makes you a christian.  For me this was just something my parents forced on me and I did not understand.  So my whole life I was searching for the answers and happiness in "the make believe markets of life" (alcohol, gay relationships,aggressiveness, jealousy, envy etc).  I was falling away from the plan God had for me.  I was unhappy in my work, life, and relationships but the one thing that could have saved me was the fact that LET GOD BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE!  LET GOD SHINE IN YOUR EVERYDAY MOVEMENTS!  LET GOD BE IN CHARGE!  No way, I took the control away from him and wanted to do everything by myself and let Him stay in the background.  I allowed the little businesses take charge of my life.  I became depressed, suicidal and yet I just did not believe in Gods power.  Our body is a temple of God and yet we allowed small businesses, adventures destroy this.  Till things or people push you away and then you go and sit down and cry and asking why is it happening.  You become obsessed with people rejecting you and you want them back, you want to have that temporary satisfaction of having them in your life.  I was there and hey I LOST THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ONE CAN HAVE AND THAT IS THE LIFE GOD WANT US TO HAVE AND WHICH HE GAVE US! I was brought to my knees and had to repent and beg for forgiveness and people I feel good.  I feel the changes this decision brought in my life.  I feel his presence in my everyday encounters with other people and yet I REMAIN HUNGRY FOR MORE!  I cant stop being hungry.  I cant wait to tell people I hurt that hey Ronel has repented and life is good!  I want to share what is happening to me in my way back to Jesus.  I was never one to publically say God is my light and Jesus my saviour but now it is just like I have an apetite for the spiritual satisfaction in my life.  I have reasons to wake up in the morning and I have to share this.  Last night I was feeling so tired.  I was playing on the computer trying to get friends to talk to me and later signed out and went to bed.  Laying on my bed with my Bible on my lap I just did not know what to do.  I did not want to read or take a message out of the Bible so I smsed a friend telling her this and asked her the question "if I dont read my bible tonight and I read it tomorrow twice do you think God will understand.  Incidentally I send this message to three people and Karen was the only one responding and she said "if you are tired, tell God and He will understand and that you must sleep well".

Waiting for this to come through I did read my Bible and when closing my eyes I asked God "daddy, I am so tired would you mind if I just lay in your arms tonight" and I thanked him and wished him a good night.  The wonderous feeling of this was that I slept well.  I slept so well that I even dreamed and in the dream I was seeing a Bible text which was so mindblowing that when I woke up this morning I could not remember what it was and it was so disturbing that I wanted to know what it meant and what it said.  I still dont know and realised that God did answer me in my sleep.  I asked for a message and it came and yet I was blinded by the remembering of the people in the dream.  I am happy to be alive today and God is Wonderful.  What has he done for you lately?