No..I'm not talking about the song "I can only Imagine" ...I am telling you that I can only imagine what it must have been like the night Jesus was born. Luke 2:7 "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." Wow...what a night! God himself...the creator of the universe, the one who is Alpha and Omega, the one who is omnipotent chose to come to this earth and contained himself in the womb of a human...a young virgin girl named Mary so that he could be born of flesh and live a sinless life to only go to a cruel cross to give his life for you and for me...sinners...unworthy and certainly hopeless. But yet he came. His word tells us that if we don't praise him the rocks will cry out. His creation knows him...so what must the animals that night in the stable thought about him...did they recognize his sovreignty and power?....Did they know they were looking at God himself? I wonder if the wind stood perfectly still as his newborn cry filled the air. I wonder if the stars shined a little brighter...twinkled a little more? I wonder if there was a sweetness just by his presence...if maybe the young girl who was so scared and had been made fun of, talked about, not believed even by her own parents...I wonder if he brought her peace as she held her son and her Savior in her arms? I can only imagine.
The last part of that verse makes my heart sad...ache, actually. It says "there was no room for them in the Inn" I fear that today many still have no room for the one who can save them...the only one who has the power to redeem them and the only one who draws them to himself so that they can have life eternal. They still push him out because there is just no room for him in their lives. I'll accept him later in life, they say....or I can't live the Christian life and I refuse to be a hypocrite....or I don't believe the Bible....or I'm just to bad...Jesus doesn't want me. Oh dear friend, He wants you to make room for him. And just as the Inn keeper not having room for them didn't stop his coming....your rejection of him won't stop his second coming nor stop your appointment that you will have one day when it is your time to stand before him. His word tells us that every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord. Why not confess it now so that one day you can say it in worship as we cry "Holy, Holy, Holy!" ...around the throne......awwww...I can only imagine.
Let's keep Christ in Christmas and make the season about the real reason....Jesus!
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