HAVE YOU ANY ROOM IN YOUR HEART FOR GOD TO WRITE “HIS STORY?”

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What are your “current priorities?”  Yes, I realize it’s the Christmas Season, but I still challenge you and me with the question of our “current priorities.  It’s a heart-felt question, isn’t it!  For what we hold “dear” to us really occupies the priorities of our heart.

I don’t know about you, but I find it a challenge sometimes when I go for a walk and see all the Christmas decorations scattered around the neighborhood on lamp posts or garage doors or have a stroll in the Hobby Lobby store.  It seems to me that the clients of those department stores seem to have a lot of decorations on their mental agenda.   The lights of the season are beautiful, for sure. 

But my heart has been drawn to another “Light…. the Light of the World…. THE SAVIOR.”   You know, as followers of this wonderful Savior, we have the privilege and honor to “celebrate every day of the year…because of His residence within our hearts.”   Yes, we “carry the Holy Spirit of the Living God” wherever we go!  

We carry Him in our words, our attitudes, our smiles, our patience (in a shopping line).  Think about that for a moment!   So, wherever we are, we can express Him to those around us.

We all have a HISTORY of past Christmas events, good and not-so-good, happy times and saddened times when we’ve experienced a great loss in our lives.  Nonetheless, if we belong to the Savior, He has come to “inhabit” and “made His home in our hearts.”

But He hasn’t come to just “live within us,” but to burst forth on the scenes of our everyday lives to make an impact on others.   He yearns to ooze out of the pores of our individual lives to touch those around us.  Our every step of life is orchestrated or allowed by Him for grander purposes…. His purposes and His plans.

For you see, He is the “Orchestrating Author” whose main purpose in life is to make us more like His Son, Jesus.   So that everywhere we are, people can see that His presence within us makes a difference. 

He designs our circumstances so that we “reflect Him.”  In a very real and wonderful sense, God, “your Creator” longs to “AUTHOR YOUR LIFE.”   Each moment of every day is like a page, unwritten, but ……. each day and the moments therein, is like a page in a book waiting to be scripted on your life.  I love the Scripture in Proverbs, chapter 3, verses 5 and 6.

Your name _______________” Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding; but in all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.”

Read that verse aloud and very slowly.  The Creator God is asking each of us to “recognize and grant His intervening presence” in all our daily events.  He’s asking us to allow Him the privilege to orchestrate and establish the journey of our moments.

For you see, He is wanting to write upon your life HIS STORY!   HIS PLANS!  HIS PURPOSES!   For that’s why you were designed.  As He authors your moments of each day, your life becomes the “HIS-TORY” of His love and care for you.  So that when others look at your life……. THEY SEE THE SAVIOR!!!

Just yesterday I heard a song come across the radio that I have never heard.  I tuned in to hear Christmas music.  The song is called “Make Room.”  My heart seemed to pause a beat when I heard the lyrics and especially the chorus, which was, IS THERE ROOM IN YOUR HEART FOR GOD TO WRITE HIS STORY?

The phrase in that song brought my thoughts back to Bethlehem, where God became human, (that’s Jesus) to show us Who God is and what He is like.   But……………there was no “room in the local inn” to allow Him a pleasant entrance to our world.

So, with that in mind, let’s not make that mistake within each of our lives.   Let’s make sure we ……

“make room in our heart for His residence and His authorship of our lives.” 

May this Christmas Season be especially meaningful to you!  

Published by Dianne Horne

I can’t think of anything I enjoy more than to see lives changed! There’s nothing more that puts “oxygen and joy” into my life than to bring the application of Scripture into the “shoe leather” of our lives and to share it with others. I feel awkward speaking about myself, but I understand it can be helpful to enable others to relate to and enjoy the work of our Lord does in other people. Another down-to-earth way of sharing who I am, is that I love to eat, laugh and to talk about the Lord. I’m not a very exciting individual, but my Savior sure is! I’ve been happily married for many years, and I now reside in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. God has transplanted my husband and I 28 times in our years together; and it is only when in His presence that you can ask the “why questions” as to the adjustments He’s brought us “to” and “through” in the numerous locations and countries we have lived. God’s care, love, forgiveness, faithfulness and moment-by-moment presence has not only carried me (when I had every reason to fall apart), but lifted me to a joy I’ve never known. There’s one thing to have joy when things are going great, and quite another dimension of joy and peace when everything in your world is crumbling and unknown. Most of our lives will appear like “ordinary oatmeal living”, but when we allow Him to “establish our steps”, He alone takes our mundane acts of kindness or aid and makes them “extraordinary” for His purpose in the lives of others. The seasons of caring for my parents and the associated grieving process has forever changed me. It was my honor, joy and privilege to participate with my Lord in what He was accomplishing in their lives, as they both gave their lives to Jesus Christ just days before they were escorted into His presence in heaven. The medical challenges and decisions that needed to be made for a number of those years thrust me into a trust and dependence upon the Lord that I had never known up to that point in my life. In my journey, I’ve come to realize that our “weakness” is our greatest “strength”, because real power, provision, and His purpose being carried out in and through our lives, depends on Him orchestrating such through His sovereignty. My “heartbeat of fulfillment” lies in sharing with women, in various settings, helping them to enjoy, study and apply the principles of God’s Word in a down-to-earth fashion. I thrive interacting with women and encouraging them to put their trust in the One Who knows them best and loves them extravagantly; and to prioritize “spending time alone with God each day” developing their relationship with Him. Our lives aren’t designed to just get answers to prayer….but to know and love a very personal Savior, and to surrender daily to “His plans, His agenda and purpose” for our lives. Several years ago I was challenged to respond to a critical question I had never considered: Why do you exist? What’s your purpose in life? I live to bring an expression of God in the ordinary events of life, seizing every opportunity of serving and delighting in others. I want my life to be an infectious expression of His love for others, and for them to know how special “they are” to Him; and thus be contagious with His grace. My life compass is: After people spend time with me, what do they think of Jesus Christ? The stories that will appear in my blog, are true events that have taken place in my journey. They’re all “very ordinary” circumstances that have occurred through sharing them with Jesus and watching Him orchestrate and demonstrate what He can do when we yield “our ordinary” to the Extraordinary One.

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