I want a Stable heart. I mean everyone wants
a healthy, stable heart- but I am
talking Stable heart… the Stable Jesus was born in that first Christmas
night. One of my favorite Christmas
songs is “No Room (The Innkeeper)” by Todd Agnew- link to lyrics: http://www.newreleasetuesday.com/lyricsdetail.php?lyrics_id=13570.
It is sung from the viewpoint of the innkeeper that Christmas night, being busy
and having too much going on in her/his life to have to make room for this
couple.
Being busy and running around- getting gifts,
going to parties, wrapping presents, baking cookies, watching movies, play
practices, you name it. There is so much
going on and it seems like time just flies by in December. This must have been how the innkeeper was
feeling. ‘There is so much to do and
focus on- I can’t pay attention to this couple and their child to be.’ This is
why I want a “Stable” heart and not the “Inn” heart. I don’t want to have a
heart at Christmas that is so distracted and caught up in doing things that I
miss Jesus when he is right in front of my face. The inn was doing great
business at that time, I am sure it would have been decorated all fancy for
Christmas in modern times, yet it missed out.
The stable was not clean, it had animals, it wasn’t glamorous but it was
open and available for Christ to come that night.
I want a Stable heart, not caught up in the
season so much that it misses Christmas, but one that is ready to receive.
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