Moving into a house is like applying Christianity to our lives.
I am moving boxes, books, crafts and clothing. We must make some things fit into small, the kitchen and other things into large, the living room. We have moved in fairly successfully and the house looks great.
One thing I learned though, is that my life as a Christian is like moving into a new house. When we first had a home, Jim and I had 2 kids, Rachael and Gordon and we lived in a small house. We had enough to keep us with places to sit and to eat, a place to sleep and a place to put our clothing. With my previous house, I barely had even that. A bed on the floor, milk crates for furniture and my first Christmas after my divorce, I had found a pine branch and hung ornaments on it. The kids were so little, they barely remember.
We start out as Christians as if we live in a barely furnished house, our crate furniture, “charlie brown” Christmas tree. We have just enough to live, barely enough to survive. Because we have so little, we just can’t take in so much. If we do, we get disallusioned with the people who have big houses. They ask for help to put up their lights, or cut back some trees, or keep the yard clean and we say, “But they don’t need help! They have all that space and all that stuff!”
It causes us to leave. It causes us to focus on them and not on our relationship with Christ and the Church.
We need to focus on developing and growing our own house. If we want Christ to live in our house, to be a part of our house, we need to make the house as welcoming to him as possible and unwelcoming to the things and places that don’t welcome him.
Make your heart as welcoming to him by focusing on life, love, charity, humility, service… all that is noble, good.
Clean up your house and make it fit for a King and one will come and live there.
