Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
In telling us the story of the birth of Jesus, Luke tells how, when Joseph and Mary (great with Child) came to the inn in Bethlehem, the innkeeper told them there was "no room in the inn." (If the Innkeeper had known, he could have given them his room and gone down in history as the greatest Innkeeper of all time!)
We never know what marvelous opportunity has come to us at any moment each new day; only if we are moment by moment connected with the Holy Spirit by faith can we be prepared.
There is never any "room" for Jesus anywhere in this sinful earth. Jesus was the target of violence more than any other children, for He was hated when He was a Baby. King Herod sent soldiers to kill all the babies in the environs of Bethlehem in his hatred of the one Baby--Jesus (Matt. 2:16-18).
Paul reminds us that "the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be" (Rom. 8:7). We don't like that word "carnal mind," but we all have it by nature. We inherited it from our fallen father Adam; it is our nature to be at "enmity" with God, and therefore at enmity with the Lord Jesus.
But thank God we can be converted, and we can receive a "new mind," for Paul says, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5). Paul would never say "Let this or that be," unless it were possible for it to be!
And this "new mind" is not something we have to work for or attain to, for Paul says, "Let" it be; don't stop the Holy Spirit from giving you this "new mind." There is nothing He wants to do greater than that! On your knees, ask Him for it.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: December 23, 2008.
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