How long was it before the inn keeper knew what he'd missed

​This morning Goff starts off this December Christmas season with a challenging thought - a challenging question to me personally.

He asks, "what do you need to move out of your life to make more room for Jesus."

He leads us there by wondering just how long it took the innkeeper to realize who he turned away from the inn that first Christmas eve. How long did it take him to wish he'd found a way to make some room for that baby.

Of course this is all based on the idea the innkeeper would one day know who that baby was. The miracles he worked, the healing he brought, the light he brought to so much darkness in the world.

But that's the difference between me and the innkeeper. I do know who he is. I've experienced daily his miracles and his healing, and it's Him and Him alone who coordinates the light in this dark life. So I don't have the fortune to say I wish I'd known. I have to say I don't make room for Him in spite of knowing.

So my goal this Christmas season is to make room every single day for Christ in the inn that is my life. And my hope is as I make more room for him, it will open up possibilities for him to find a space in someone else's life, someone who is in need of a miracle and healing and light.