Love Makes Room

People make room for the things they love - like photography, or a spouse, or children or work or alcohol or books or sports or sleep or God.  People will make the most room for that which they love and delight in the most.  When I delight in my wife, I am motivated to make choices that will make her happy and make much of her - flowers, dinner out, alone time, loving looks and touches.  I make room for her with my resources (time, money and space) so that they might be invested in her because she is worthy of them.  For the Christian, Jesus is of supreme worth and we make much of him by making room in our lives so that our resources might be supremely invested in him.

Making room for God might not seem like something we would need to focus on.  But, in consumeristic America where over loaded schedules has led to a burdened pace of life, people are increasingly being faced with a significant challenge of making room for God on Sunday mornings, let alone in the rest of their Monday through Saturday lives. Economic unrest, pressures from work, family struggles, children's school and extracurricular activities add to an already demanding pace of life that often exceeds the human's capacity to maintain and often results in major life breakdowns.  The vital questions for us today are, "What choices do I need to make today in order to keep the main thing the main thing?" And, "What is my main thing?"

Over the last few years, River Rock has focused on hospitality as a key practice in making an invisible God visible by making room in our lives for him and others.  In 2005 we focused on the practice of hospitality as an act of making room in our resources in order to invest them outside ourselves and for others.  In 2006 we focused on making room for our youth and the Next Generation.  In 2007 we focused on making room for the stranger and in 2008 we are focusing on making room for God. 

River Rock invites you to join others who are striving to make more room for God so that we might flourish as the people he designed us to be.  We would be thrilled to have you join us as we take a year long look at the New Testament book of Galatians and seek to apply God's Word regarding the Good News of Jesus as it relates to making room for God and leading others to Love.  May 2008 be a year in which Love makes room in and through your life by keeping the main thing the main thing.