The Stable

The Stable

Wow its almost Christmas…that’s the first thought I had come to mind this morning as I awoke from a good nights sleep. However freezing cold in my house, I was warm in my bed. Then the Christmas story began to play out in my thoughts… What Mary was feeling in that cold and lonely time yet somehow knowing she was in the perfect plan for her life. And Joseph, how he may have been thinking here we are in a stable, no heat, no food, no future plans of a job. Yet they were comforted in that lonely stable by knowing that God had a plan. He had given them a promise and they knew HE would fulfill this promise of a savior.

The stable what was it like, my mind began to race…. It probably had a stench… it was nothing more than a “barn” a house for animals. There was probably animal stench everywhere… it was dark…. no light coming in from the outside. It was lonely; Joseph was the only person in the city Mary knew. Yet for some reason the stable kept coming to my mind.

Stable…Stable…Stable… I thought to myself and then it hit me…the “Stable is the place where Jesus was born”. The stable was the first place that welcomed our LORD and SAVIOR into this world… but wait what if we looked at the stable as a symbol… A symbol of the dark and lost, the lonely, the empty.. the one Jesus wants to be born into…born again… reborn.. But this time by the Holy Spirit…what if we looked at the “Stable” as a soul of the lost women on the streets, the soul of the homeless drug abuser, as the drunk sitting on the side of the road, or the child who sees no end to his torment of an abusive parent… What if we see a stable in them?

Then the thought came to me, will I be willing to stop in my business of the Holiday Season and share this Jesus with them, the Jesus that filled the stable with HIS presence that first Christmas day? Will I be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit to stop and pray for the lost and lonely? I don’t know for certain the answer to these questions but my prayer is “Lord help me to be sensitive to the lost souls of this world this Holiday Season”… AMEN

Carma Wirth
Faith Tabernacle
Womens Ministry Director