The Lord is wanting us to make more room for Him in our lives and in our hearts.
He is moving us towards being prepared for more souls being saved, more lives being changed, and more hearts receiving healing.
However, in order for us to be a part of what He is doing and is about to do, we need to be ready ourselves for such a move of Him.
Making more room for God in our lives translates to putting aside our selfish desires, our idols we have upheld instead of Him, and becoming a child of God that pursues Him wholeheartedly.
This is the activity He is calling us to while we wait on Him to move in a mighty and holy way.
Keeping our hearts free from this world is a work that must be intentional.
If we took time to think about what hinders our closeness with the Lord, whether they be bad habits or even good things, and we put them aside while at the same time putting our energy into seeking Him, we will find that we have begun the process of making more room for Him.
An idol in this context simply means putting anything, anyone or any activity above the Lord within your heart.
When we struggle and we seek comfort in anything else besides going to Him, this can be telling of our hearts and of our lack of love for Him.
This pursuit of Him and holiness also walks a fine line with becoming self righteous and living out a works based salvation. So in order to be free from those strongholds, continue to ask the Lord to check the motives of your heart while you pursue after Him.
There are countless believers that “appear to pursue” Him, but only for a show before others, or for what they can gain from God. Some, in their pursuit of righteousness, begin to have thoughts that they are better than those that are not pursuing God as hard. Still others are trapped in a works based salvation because they cannot freely receive what the Lord has given them and they feel a need to work for it through doing good. Yet, God sees right through these wrong motives and knows the pursuit of Him is not pure in heart.
Making room for the Lord within us requires an abandoning of anything that holds us back from knowing Him, from fully obeying Him, and from allowing our love for Him to deepen.
This is the sanctification process, the process of being made holy and set apart for God. If you have salvation in Christ, you have been justified. But allowing the Lord to uproot out of you those fleshly parts of you and those worldly mindsets is allowing Him to bring you more to maturity. This is sanctification.
A lot of believers walk around content with being made justified alone, being made righteous in the sight of God through Jesus, yet they refuse to allow God to work on their hearts and minds and remain just as they were when they first believed.
But there is so much more to our Christian life than just that first step of receiving salvation. There is a relationship the Lord wants us to have with Him that is real and deep and that brings us the heart and life change He promises in His Word.
Let me challenge you today friend, to make more room for the Lord in your life.