Leave Room For God
With days rolling into weeks, we are fully on-board the 2020 runaway train. Although, only three weeks in, we have witnessed the uprising in the Middle East; significant change to the British Royal family, impeachment proceedings in the USA, Britain's exit from the EU looming and many more important events across the globe.
At this time of the year, New Year resolutions, goals and aspirations of all sorts are at the forefront of our focus. Like many of you, I've also committed to a vegan January in the hope of playing a little part in looking after our earthly home as I tend to have a rolling resolution around physically and spiritually wellbeing. I believe it is good to look after one's spirit, soul and body. But this New Year and the new decade I have an earnest desire for God to make this decade his globally, not that every decade past, present or future isn't his. It just that I want God to do great things in and out of the Body of Christ so much so that we remember the decade as the Lord's. In a nutshell, I want to see Him lifted high becoming a banner that rolls across the globe.
Over the holiday season, we pause for a little while to celebrate Christmas and welcome in the New Year while enjoying the rest it affords us and the time to catch us with relatives, friends and more importantly ourselves! And as soon as the year commences, we charge in with much enthusiasm to achieve our plans and aspirations. We have so much mountain peaks to scales that we waste no time in getting on with it. For most people, God barely has a look-in to our plans and aspirations. They are ours to draw up, ours to implement, without any thought of ever leaving room for God in our goal setting or life plan.
You see my unexpected encounter with God in April 2009 taught me the vital lesson of intentionally leaving room for God in my planning's, mainly because I was caught unaware in 2009 and was as shocked as everyone else around me. Therefore, since then, I've consciously left the door ajar in my planning and life goals so that God neither has to knock nor break my door down to reach me. I realised that if I leave room for him in my plans and aspirations that I don't have to be shocked, unhinged and bothered when he makes an entrance unexpectedly while at the same time giving him unhindered access to me. This places me in the driving seat, making it less of an intrusion or an interruption when he does choose to show up.
So, in my earnest desire to see God do something special in and out of the Body of Christ this decade, regardless of race, colour or culture, I implore you to please pray along with me if God stirs your heart in that direction. I also encourage you to review your plans and goals for this year and the decade ahead whether you are a student, a professional, business owner, politician etc. and intentionally leave the make room for the Lord by leaving the door ajar in your daily living and doing. You just never know if God wants to do something new and unexpected in your life, community or society.
We make plans and set goals for our family, careers, businesses and communities etc. and often they are lockdown plans, with the T's crossed and the I's dotted but this year and this decade I want to encourage you to make space for God in those plans.
I wish you a blessed 2020 and a decade of leaving room for the Lord!
