Preparing a Place

In many ways, we can never prepare a place for God. Where would you put Him? The guest bedroom does not seem quite good enough. But we ought to prepare a place for the Lord. We do so by preparing our hearts. We come to understand that we need a Savior when we see ourselves as we really are. We are needy. We are sinful. We are unable to save ourselves.

         In this sense, Jesus must get the master bedroom. You move out and He moves in. But not just to get the nicest room. I mean master in the sense of the Sovereign Lord. You move out of the master because you have humbled yourself before the real master. 

         So, prepare yourself for Jesus by confessing sins and acknowledging that He is Lord and that you are His servant. But not just servant, but rather a servant that has been adopted as child and thus exalted with and in Jesus. This truth also makes us want to lay aside the sin which so easily entangles.