Prepare Him Room

"Prepare Him Room". Someone posted that phrase on social media last week as a reminder of the true reason for the Christmas season that is upon us now. It has resounded in my mind and heart ever since I read it. In a world where chaos and busyness and "stuff" works to crowd out the Spirit, there is a still small voice still speaking "prepare him room". Not just during Christmastime, although I love this season because I get to marvel at the best gift I've ever been given. The gift of heaven come down in the form of a sweet baby, born to an unprepared, ill-equipped teenager who made herself available. Immanuel, God with us. Love come down.

Psalm 98:9 The Passion Translation:
"Look! Here he comes! The Lord and Judge of all the earth! He's coming to make things right and to do it fair and square. And everyone will see that he does all things well."

He left heaven to come and make everything right. To set all wrong things right. Not in the way people expected, as I've come to learn he never does. He does it in ways that are so much better.

So what would happen if I made room for Him? What would happen if I cleared the clutter of unimportant things and distractions, and simply made room? Because he never changes, I can confidently state the answer. He will always come where there is room, where he is invited, in unexpected ways and with unexpected gifts.
This Christmas season, it is my prayer:
Come, Lord Jesus. More of you. Less of the inconsequential.


I think the best way to leave this is with a link to a great song on this very topic.




Lyrics:

Who is man
That you would care for us
You clothed yourself in flesh
To draw us near
In sinful man
You've made our hearts your home
To make your glory known
Your redemption clear

Let every heart
Prepare him room
For nothing else
compares with you
Restore the joy
of our salvation Lord
Prepare our hearts
for more of you

No greater love
has anyone than this
To sacrifice the gift
of your only son
So we lay aside
All the earthly things
And all that comes between this great divide



Merry Christmas, all
May it be filled with more Jesus than it ever has before.