The Room That We Have In The Inn
It’s Christmas Eve and on this night the vivid account from Luke chapter 2 verse 7 of the birth of Jesus is recalled. Where Mary brought forth her first born son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manager because there was no room for him in the inn.
Tonight, in El Paso, Texas and in countless towns along our southern border thousands of migrants are trapped in the political vortex of a broken immigration system. As the world’s wealthiest nation, we have the room in the inn to accommodate the tired, the poor and the huddle masses yearning to breath free. However, these words inscribed on the tablet of the Statue of Liberty remain hollow until we ask God for the courage to make them true. For indeed we have room in the inn.
Tonight, in Athens, Georgia and in countless towns throughout our land many of God’s children are without a place to sleep on this bitter cold night. As the world’s wealthiest nation, we have the room in the inn to accommodate those who are experiencing homeliness. However, until we seek God’s guidance, we will continue to lack the imagination, the resourcefulness and the will to provide the comprehensive services necessary to abate homeliness. For indeed we have room in the inn.
Tonight, in Buffalo, New York and in too many cities and towns in the United States, families are experiencing a Christmas Eve without a loved one. A loved one who was killed in a mass shooting. In May alone 10 people died in a Buffalo supermarket, 21 in a Texas elementary school, 4 at a Taiwanese church in California, 5 at a flea market in Houston, and 6 at a park in Lexington, Kentucky, and that was just one month. In the world’s wealthiest and most advanced nation it seems we have no room in the inn for a solution to mass shootings. Instead, we have become primal incapable of stopping the slaughter of God’s children. We will remain this way until we ask God for the wisdom to honor the Sixth Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13) ahead of the Second Amendment, “The right to bear arms”
For indeed we have room in the inn.
On this silent and holy night where Ukraine is without lights under brutal attack by the thug of the world Vladimir Putin, and our democracy is still recovering from the brutal attack on it by the thug of America Donald Trump there is hope.
For born to us this day is a savor Christ the Lord. Given to us by a God who so loved the world that He gave us Jesus, so whoever believed in him would not die but would have everlasting life.
So, on this Christmas Eve there is room in the inn because with Jesus, Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Merry Christmas
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