MAKING ROOM!

The holidays bring families together in ways we wouldn’t do every day. We pull out couches. We build makeshift beds on the floor. We fill the pantry and fridge with more food. We make room for family from far away, into our homes, to live with us, so we can be with them. We try to meet all their needs for they are “family”. 

In the midst of all that, we learn new things about each other’s habits and routines that have been developed over the years. We see changes in each other. Our assumptions of each other are proven wrong…just by being together. Our relationship deepens in this experience of knowing each other. We find things out about each other that we would’t have known before…unless we had made room for them to spend the night with us. To live with us.

There is Someone else who would also like to be invited in…Jesus!

“Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together.” (Revelation 3:20 CEV)

We were created by Him, to be loved and to love Him back. Many ignore the knock and will not invite Him in…the most important relationship we could ever have! Just like the innkeeper in the first Christmas story (Luke 2), we don’t believe we need more guests. 
We think we have everything and everyone we need. 

One problem, that arrogant attitude will never help us fulfill His purpose for our life, which is far grander and more significant than we ever imagined.

But the good news is that it’s not too late. We can have a relationship with him no matter what has happened in our past, no matter how many times we have rejected him before. God made it so simple that anyone can understand. It’s only three words: Invite him in. 

MAKE ROOM for the Savior! GIVE him all the room He needs to love you, be with you and help you live, really live, with “higher ground” thinking and behaving, life to the full, with purpose and meaning!

Our prayer for the season for all of us…In Jesus Name, Amen!