Worship 
Cliff Notes No Room in the Inn
Cliff Notes No Room in the Inn
No Room in the Inn
Sunday, 11 December 2011 07:15 | 
Written by Rev. Cliff C. Wright, Jr. | 
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“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” (Luke 2:7).
“No room in the inn.” Have you ever wondered why? Why was there no room for a tired, young, expectant mother and her weary husband? Well, the answer is really very simple. There was no room in the inn for the Christ child because all the rooms had already been filled. There was no room in the inn for the birth of the Messiah because all the rooms in the inn had already been filled with other guests. The inn was just too crowded to receive the Christ child. It was as simple as that.
“No room in the inn.” How often is that statement true for you and me, especially at this time of the year? How often is it in our frantic, frenzied Christmas rush and our hectic, hurried schedules and all the things to do and places to go and people to see that Jesus gets pushed aside? And before we know it Christmas has come and gone, and suddenly we wake up and realize that in all our rush and confusion, we failed to make room for the One whose birth we celebrate.
It’s not that we don’t want to experience again the birth of Christ in our lives this Christmas. It’s not that we don’t want to let Christ into the “inns” of our lives. It’s just that all the rooms in the inns of our lives have already been filled with other guests. It’s a simple matter of the inns of our lives becoming too crowded to receive the Christ child.
The question for us, then, is a simple one: Will there be any room in the inns of our lives for the birth of Christ this Christmas…
Or will there simply be no room in the inn?
In Christ,
Cliff C. Wright, Jr.
“No room in the inn.” Have you ever wondered why? Why was there no room for a tired, young, expectant mother and her weary husband? Well, the answer is really very simple. There was no room in the inn for the Christ child because all the rooms had already been filled. There was no room in the inn for the birth of the Messiah because all the rooms in the inn had already been filled with other guests. The inn was just too crowded to receive the Christ child. It was as simple as that.
“No room in the inn.” How often is that statement true for you and me, especially at this time of the year? How often is it in our frantic, frenzied Christmas rush and our hectic, hurried schedules and all the things to do and places to go and people to see that Jesus gets pushed aside? And before we know it Christmas has come and gone, and suddenly we wake up and realize that in all our rush and confusion, we failed to make room for the One whose birth we celebrate.
It’s not that we don’t want to experience again the birth of Christ in our lives this Christmas. It’s not that we don’t want to let Christ into the “inns” of our lives. It’s just that all the rooms in the inns of our lives have already been filled with other guests. It’s a simple matter of the inns of our lives becoming too crowded to receive the Christ child.
The question for us, then, is a simple one: Will there be any room in the inns of our lives for the birth of Christ this Christmas…
Or will there simply be no room in the inn?
In Christ,
Cliff C. Wright, Jr.
