Making Room

Happy 2012!  I’m looking forward to a great year – lots of exciting things planned, and lots of unknowns, but God is greater than both, and He is with me!

This Christmas I was blessed by friends and family with some great presents.  I realized right away though that I needed to do some rearranging and cleaning out of my closet and pantry to make room for the new presents.  Are you in that situation too?  When I lived at home, I remember conversations between my mom and dad about Christmas presents:

“You want what?”

“A leaf blower.”

“Where are we going to put it?”

“In the garage.”

“WHERE in the garage?”

“Oh it’ll fit.”

“Ok, well YOU get to clean it out.”

“I’ll use the leaf blower.”

Every year, we have to make room for our new Christmas presents, clean out the old stuff that we don’t use anymore (and probably forgot we even had), and do some rearranging of the stuff we keep.

This year, maybe you’re making resolutions, maybe you’re not.  A friend asked about mine, and I said I forgot all about it.  Her list was impressive, several big areas to tackle this year.  So after our conversation, as I was trying to shove my Christmas present into the pantry, I realized:  I have to make room.  This year, in all your activity and work and play and life-living, make room for Jesus.  If you’re a resolution-making-type, make a resolution to fit Him into your life in a bigger way this year.  If you’re not a resolution-making-type, determine that for your own good and the good of all those around you, you will need to make room for Him too.  This’ll look different for different people – perhaps spending more time in prayer; perhaps putting your heart into service to others; perhaps doing more diligent and focused spiritual reading and application; perhaps working with a small group at your church or workplace.  Ask Jesus to help you make room for Him this year… let’s clean out the old clutter, and rearrange our lives around Him.  Because really, He was the best Christmas present we ever got anyway.