A Prayer about Making Room for Jesus
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2:7
Lord Jesus,
Sometimes I think the innkeeper has gotten a bad rap
in all of our Christmas programs
for not making room for the baby Jesus.
After all, if he had known
the Messiah would be born in his inn,
wouldn’t he have found him a room?
As I consider his story and the busy days of the Christmas season,
I pray that we will see who you really are—
the Messiah, the King of Kings,
who humbled yourself to take on humanity,
who submitted to being born in a stable
and laid in a feeding trough.
I pray that we will make room for you
in our noisy hearts.
Still us and silence us
that we might hear your kind invitation
into the space of forgiveness,
into the deepest, truest love
we have ever known.
By your Spirit, move us toward you,
the one who came to live among us
that we might live forever with you.
In your hospitable name.
Amen.
Read Luke 2:1-7; Psalm 46:10.
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![Is the gospel good news to you?
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mark 1:1
Good Father,
Our world seems to be drawn to bad news,
so much so that we can even watch it 24 hours a day
on TV, on our phones, on our tablets.
And yet, our souls truly long for good news,
and your gospel is precisely that.
The word gospel literally translates as “good news.”
This good news is “of Jesus Christ,”
meaning it belongs to Jesus the Messiah,
the King of your kingdom.
This good news is also about Jesus Christ.
It is true that it is [almost] unbelievably good news,
for the story goes that you sent your Son,
a divine King,
into the world as a human baby
born from a virgin’s womb.
But not only that, you sent your Son,
your sinless Son,
who perfectly satisfied you,
as the Savior for your sinful people,
who could never satisfy you.
Good Father, help us to grasp this truth—
we could never earn your love.
We could never pay the debt of our sin.
Nothing we have done in our lives
makes us good enough to be forgiven.
And in that is the amazingly good news:
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21).
Father, how we thank you for your goodness to us in Christ.
May we live in gratitude for this good news,
and may we share it with everyone we meet.
In Jesus’ good name. Amen.
Read Mark 1:1-11.
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