Room For God

Everything in life is clamoring for your attention. Work, kids, school, friends, family…when we should be sitting at Jesus’ feet listening, we are distracted by all the busyness of life. We have no spiritual margin, we have no room in our lives for God.

You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.      Revelation 3:17, 20 (New International Version)

They thought that they were complete, full and didn’t need anything. They were wrong.

We have to make room for God. We have to create room/space in our lives where we allow God to move in.

How do you give God more room in your life?

This is deep…You can’t create spiritual margin by devoting yourself to nonspiritual things.

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.    John 6:63 (New Living Translation)

Luke, Chapter 10, is a great story about two different women; Martha was distracted by the busyness of life, while Mary chose to sit at Jesus’ feet and listen to His words.

Jesus said, “Mary has chosen what is better.” The choice is yours! You can choose to live in a way that will lead to an overloaded, stressed-out life, or you can make a better choice and set everything else aside and make room for God.