No Room
Introduction
Christmas rush and parties and family get-togethers crowd the calendar, until there is no room in our lives for Jesus.
Thesis: The world tempts us to crowd the Lord out of our lives.
No Room for Jesus in Daily Life
A. Christian devotions: Bible reading and prayer
B. Christian service
C. Christian witnessing
No Room for Jesus in Family Finances
A. Sin of Indebtedness, Romans 13:8
B. Sin of Robbing God
C. Sin of Selfishness
No Room for Jesus in Church Decisions
A. Meeting without praying
B. Majority opinion rather than Godly direction
C. Deciding on less than the best
Conclusion
The Lord will not be shut out. He will have His way with us or without us.
“No room for Him,” the keeper said that night long ago,
“My inn is crowded, don’t you see, the rooms now overflow.”
“It’s just a Child,” he must have thought, “A family, poor and plain;
My inn is filled with paying guests, How could I dare explain?”
And thus, he turned aside from One Who chose a humble birth
To enter into human form and save all men on earth.
But lo, the shepherds in the hills were called, the Babe to greet;
They followed then the brilliant star and worshiped at His feet!
“No room for Him,” cry men today as through the world they plod;
“My life is crowded, don’t you see? I have no room for God.
How could I dare explain to all my friends who question me,
That Jesus came to save my soul, from sin, to set me free?”
O God, forbid that we become as keeper of the inn,
And have our lives so crowded that we have no room for Him.
But now may we, Thy children dear, unworthy though we are,
Become as shepherds long ago, and follow now His star!
–Kathryn Slasor