5.15-What did Jesus do when He was upset?

5.15-

I wish I could turn over some tables.
What would you do?
If you sat across from a school teacher who described the fear in his students when they have a lock down drill at the high school where he works?

What would you do if a buddy who plays golf after breakfast with you says that his grand kids don’t have the same security in their private school that he used to have in his public school?
What would you do if your news told you on 4.20.99 that two gunman were killing 12 teenagers and a teacher?
Would you stay in your own group, clique, silo of thought, political party, church denomination, behind your gated community?
Would you stay quiet? Or would you move out into the lost, broken world and engage in telling it the good news that laying down your life as a ransom for others is better than being a victim?
Today, 5.9.19, I was out where a woman tells me that her 74 year old mother fell, hit her head and severely injured her hip and cannot walk. She tells me of a customer at her restaurant who comes in twice a week with his wife and today she is not with him. Where is she? “She died of a sudden heart attack last week?”
What would you do if there was another shooting and one student killed in a charter, STEM, (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) (5.7.19)?
What would you do if there was enough money to pay 329,000/year, to a school superintentant at Fulton County Schools in Atlanta area where your daughter works as a volunteer for 20-30 hours a week but there is no money for the poor students to have the basic equipment needed for their school success?
What would you do if a grandfather age, 79, asks you and several others at your breakfast table, “What kept you in school?” and all three answered “sports”.
What if the 3.1 million public school teachers were underpaid and overworked and not allowed to teach the foundational principles that guide their own lives to the students that are being attacked on a daily basis?
What would you do? If you were a follower of Jesus you would not withdraw? You would speak, write, engage to tell others that there is hope because Jesus ransomed all of us and laid down His life for all people that we can got out and live our lives as a joyful, sacrifice of mercy and we can ransom our lives to help others. Some of the 3.1 million school teachers in public schools are teaching their students the very best kind of life by their example.
I will not be silent about Jesus calling all of us to speak the good news of God’s love to this dark world and bring the light we can into it every day. At work. At the coffee shop. At the grocery store. At the sports event. At the school. Every day we can be a ransom to lay down our lives to help others. We cannot help but speak of what Jesus has done.
Larry Wishard
5.9.19

Mark 11.
¹² The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. ¹³ Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. ¹⁴ Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
¹⁵ On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, ¹⁶ and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. ¹⁷ And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’^[c]? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’^[d]”