WHAT ROOM WILL YOU GIVE HIM
Luke 2:6-7
And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Over my lifetime I've loaned out a lot of things to others with no cost or plan to get anything in return. I've loaned out money. I've loaned out vehicles. I've loaned out my kids to others who needed work done. I've loaned out firearms and archery gear for hunting, tools for working, boats for fishing, food for eating, tractors for farming and my time for helping.
Often things don't come back in the same condition as when they went out (or come back at all). But my stuff is still available to others.
Conversely, I hate borrowing things from people. It seems if something is going to go wrong with something... It's when I'm borrowing it. On the otherhand, I always feel that the stuff that I possess isn't really mine but on loan from God and I have no right to hold it back from someone that has a need. Occasionally my stuff doesn't return or it returns broken, but if I count it as God's stuff it really doesn't matter.
Jesus had few, if any, possessions of His own. He had to borrow most everything. Think about the fact that He had to borrow a room or a stable to be born in. He had to borrow a manger for a bed. Later in life He borrowed a room for His last supper, he borrowed a burro to ride into Jerusalem on and He even borrowed a room, carved into stone for a grave, owned by Joseph of Arimathea to be burrirf.
Let me ask you, if a young couple showed up at your door tonight needing a place to stay, would you have room? Most of us would answer this question, "yes".
So my next question is this... Then why don't most of us have room in our hearts to allow Jesus to work in and through us? Sure we might say we have room for Him, but what room are we allowing Him? Is He pushed back into the corner of the basement where we can be sure that no one sees Him in our life. Maybe He's in a upper bedroom where people can see that there is a little light in our life, but they can't really tell what it is. Or maybe we allow Jesus to use the living room so when others come over we can show him off like the religious elite Pharisees did with God. Or do you allow Jesus all of your heart, each room is available to Him to use all the time.
Only by allowing Jesus to completely have control of our heart will we know His love and only by having Him fill us will others see Him in our lives.
So when Jesus asks to borrow a room, what will your answer be?
Revelation 3:20
Behold! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
Give Him your all.
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