Sorry We're Full

That was the message that rang in Joseph’s ear as he knocked on the door of the Inn at Bethlehem. I’m sure Joseph tried his hardest to get Mary a warm and comfortable room. I’m sure he explained Mary’s situation, he knew that her baby’s arrival was imminent but the answer was ‘no room’.

’And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.’ Luke 2 v7

I was just reading this passage the other day as I was thinking about the incarnation of the Son of God and I thought it was a very sad verse. The Saviour of the world was placed in an animals feeding trough for a bed, because there was no room for Him in the Inn.

As I got to thinking about this verse, I thought that not much has changed in 2000 years. Society in general still seems to have no time or room for the Son of God, for the Saviour of the world. Even at this time of year, which is supposed to be a celebration of His coming into the world, people have turned it into an excuse to indulge their fleshly desires. People are more interested in the office party, or shopping for presents than they are in the Son of God. Many will not be found in a Church environment singing Christmas Carols and praising God for His coming into the world to be our Saviour. What about you, how much time will you give to the Lord Jesus this Christmas?

Have you any room for Jesus
He who bore your load of sin?
As He knocks and asks admission
Sinner, will you let Him in?

May I take this opportunity to wish my regular readers a very Happy Christmas Season and a blessed New Year.

God is Great

That’s what militant Atheist Christopher Hitchens found out this week when he departed this world and entered Eternity. It gives me no pleasure to say it but if he died as he lived then he will find out how great God is in His Justice.

Mr Hitchens was the author of a number of books the most famous of which is ‘God is NOT Great’. I listened to a clip of a speech he made on the radio this morning in which he mocked God, those who follow Him and God’s plan of redemption. I shudder to think of how he is feeling now, as he becomes aware of how wrong he has been and how settled his destiny is.

May the Lord open the eyes of others of his kind who make a career out of mocking God before it is eternally too late.

‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.’ Galatians 6 v7

Filth Watch

Another season of the X Factor is almost over. This year’s judging panel was a complete shake up from previous years with only Louis Walsh surviving from last year’s line-up. One judge in particular seems to have gone down very well with the British public and has been taken to the nation’s heart. I refer of course to the American judge Kelly Rowland.

The show has portrayed Miss Rowland as a real sweet and wholesome girl next door kind of character but a quick look at the lyrics of her latest single paint a somewhat different picture. The song itself is entitled ‘I’m down for whatever’. A quick read of some of the lyrics leaves little to the imagination, the song opens with the following…

‘I'm down for whatever, I'm down for whatever. When it comes to you, I could make love on the floor, I'm down for whatever, I'm down for whatever. Baby let's get creative. Cause of you I am down I'm down for whatever.’

Not so sweet and wholesome as you thought, eh? She goes on to sing…

‘There's no place I wouldn't go. Tonight I'm ready to take it anywhere. I'm amazed, by you all. You bring out a side I didn't know. Say the word, and I'll do anything, can't say no to you, It ain't juice, mixed with booze. No baby every word is true.’

The second verse is no better…

‘Let's explore, see what we find. I'm waiting for you to discover me. No restraints, no regrets Just give me your eye, I won't forget. Say the word, and I'll do anything, can't say no to you. It ain't juice, mixed with booze. No baby every word is true.’
‘Tonight, you're making everything feel right Tonight, I wanna get high and touch the sky.’

We should never forget, the X Factor is marketed as a family show and we know that families around the country all sit around the television watching it. Many of the viewers are young children of primary School age and of course the programme is aired before the watershed in order to cater for children of that age.

What happens in homes across Britain is young impressionable girls see this beautiful young woman with her cute American accent and they fall in love with her personality, they want to dress like her, they want her picture on their bedroom walls and of course they want her latest album. Their mums who have been sucked in by the wholesome image buy the album for their children and in so doing only serve to corrupt their children’s minds.

Don’t be sucked in, but rather be informed and be warned. The music of Kelly Rowland is Filth.

‘Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.’ Philippians 4 v8