ANY ROOM FOR JESUS | Luke 2:7

I was five, maybe six years old at the time, and I was in our little church's Christmas pageant. I had wanted to be a wise man, but I got the role of the in-keeper instead, you know the in-keeper guy, and a little girl and boy playing Mary and Joseph and when they came knocking at my door, I spoke to them, those five infamous words, no room in the inn. And I was very young at a time, but I felt the sadness of those words, no room in the end, words that were based on the Christmas story that Luke tells us in his gospel, chapter two. "And Mary brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him and swapping clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn."

I wonder. How do those words sound to you today? How do they affect you? No room in the inn. Strangely, those words from the gospel have they've haunted me through the years, no room in the inn because I sometimes have difficulty making room for Jesus in my life, I mean filled up as it is, well, with a lot of good stuff. My plans, my agenda, my ambition, such that it is sometimes difficult to find room for Jesus. But I have discovered that when we do not have room for Jesus in our lives, it's not Jesus who's a loser. It's us. We're the ones losing out. But thankfully, Jesus is patient, and Jesus waits for us.

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