Make Room

“Make room for Love.  Make space for Hope.  Make time for Truth.  Let the things that matter most have room in your life.”
Loren Thornburg

With Christmas on it’s way we make room for lots of things in our lives.  We are buying presents, going to parties, decorating, planning and more.  We make room in our homes for the guests coming into town, but, what about the things that matter most?  What about the reasons we are doing all of these preparations?  Are we giving those things room in our lives?  We spend a lot of time preparing for the physical preparations, but what about our hearts?  Are we giving them room to prepare?  Are we making space for the things that mean the most to us?  First we need to know what those things are and then we need to make room for them in our lives.  It’s so easy to get caught in the craze of things and miss the point.  Make room for the things that matter most.  

“Let the Word of Christ-The Message-have run of the house.  Give it plenty of room in your lives.” 
Colossians 3:16 Message

God wants run of the house, not just a part of the house.  He wants plenty of room in our lives not just one of the rooms of our hearts.  So often we want to give him part of our lives and not all of it.  We think that parts of our lives are separate from Him, but He is in and through all of it.  He is there in our work, our play, our eating, our relationships, our dreams, our grieving...everything, but often we don’t invite Him into those things.  We don’t give Him permission to have His way in those things.  We are so often more concerned about our rooms looking good, our house looking good, our lives looking good, then we are with letting God into them.  We seek to impress everyone except the One who brings the love we are looking for in our impressing.  So decorate, yes; give gifts, yes; prepare for parties, yes; but not to impress, but to celebrate the One who loves us without any impressing.  Make room to spend time with Him like you make room for all the Christmas festivities.  So as we sing in “Joy to the World”, may “every heart prepare him room”...including yours.    

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Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.