MAKE ROOM for HIS WORD:

GOD KNOWS I am too busy often times. How about you?  I know I NEED TO MAKE ROOM!  The reality is that I can’t seem to escape certain pressures of life: financial pressure, pressure from circumstances out of my control, people pressure, pressure at work, at home, pressure to perform, pressure to conform to world of busyness, a world of so many voices, expectations, entertainments and constant activity.  What do all these pressures have in common? They are all working to conform us to our external environment.

This is where the series on making room is EXCITING to me! You see I have been learning and re-learning a secret to making room.  ITS NOT ABOUT THE EXTERNALS!  I mean look at Jesus’ life. The man was busy! Once he started his ministry – it was ON! I have been studying the book of MARK in preparation for an upcoming trip to Tanzania to train Pastor’s there and as I go thru the book it’s interesting in the NAS version how almost every other verse says: “Immediately”.  It’s immediately this and immediately that. It is really an ACTION gospel. Crowds gathering were trampling each other to see Jesus. I mean HE WAS THE ORIGINAL ROCK STAR! Even when He tried to sail away in a boat to escape the people, they followed on foot and were there when the boat landed.  PRESSURE! BUSYNESS! I mean Jesus got so tired He fell asleep in a boat during gale force winds and had to be woken up!

So what was HIS secret? HOW did HE make room?

1. He knew man was intended to live by the WORD of GOD regarding HIS life!  (Lk 4:4, Mtt 4:4)

2. No matter how hectic it got, HE took time to get away and be alone with the Father.   (Mk1:35-37 Jn 6:22,)

3. He Knew not to entrust Himself to people and their expectations.  (JN 2:24 )

So how do we make room? Make room to hear and receive HIS word implanted in your heart which is able to save your soul! Make room on the inside; take time to develop your relationship with HIS WORD! Meditate on it, study it, memorize it, quote it, pray it, ACT ON IT!

The simple truth is busyness and distraction is not nearly so much the problem as our lack of HIS WORD on the INSIDE to combat the pressure on the OUTSIDE.  ALL that PRESSURE is trying to CONFORM us to a way of living based on external pressures that will always lead to us being shaped by circumstance.

As you struggle with making room and the convicting messages be encouraged today by this simple promise in Romans 12:1-2 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.  “

You see as we give ourselves to HIM, as we offer our bodies every day, and make HIS WORD our number one source of INFORMATION, instead of suffering a CONFORMATION we will experience a TRANSFORMATION! The pressure on the outside will only serve to bring out the truth on the INSIDE! Busy people full of GOD and HIS word have an INTERNAL POWER that is greater than ALL EXTERNAL PRESSURE! What breaks, molds, shapes and conforms others, only serves as a catalyst for us to be changed, transformed into a whole different kind of person. The POWER of HIS WORD, HIS LOVE and LIFE will renew our minds and transform us, even when we can’t control the schedule, the circumstances or the people!

 AS this busy, harried, harassed world of ours that is killing itself, performing and conforming to external pressures as it fears GOD’s word and HIS WILL; We have the opportunity to prove to them that when we MAKE ROOM FOR GOD and HIS word  we are TRANSFORMED from the inside out. GOD’s will IS GOOD, ACCEPTABLE and PERFECT in spite of this broken world full of destruction and despair! What hope that gives!