Let Him In!
Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears. — 1 Samuel 3:10
When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." — Mark 2:17
Author
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
Summary: God calls us in different ways, even through the healing of a loved one, a long-awaited job, or unexpected inner peace. When we sense that he pauses to speak to us, we can respond like Samuel or, at least, listen to him. Instead, we may seek support that cannot help us, live without recognizing our spiritual death, and give other thoughts the Lord’s place. On the first Christmas, God called us despite knowing our sins: he became flesh in Jesus to love us and usher in redemption. If he calls us again, let us welcome him with gratitude and praise; let us invite him into our lives.
How many opportunities wasted! The Lord has called people ever since they became aware of their capacity to reason. He has called them in different ways: the miraculous healing of a child, a wife, or a loved one; the job long hoped for; the inner peace that you yourself do not even know where it came from. It is God, God alone, trying to draw you to Him.
If you feel that the Lord has come and stopped to speak to you, answer Him as Samuel did. Or at least listen to Him. Right now God may be calling you by drawing your gaze to some crucial matter that concerns Him, that is of interest to Him. It is His singular way of getting your attention.
People reinvent themselves almost every day and seek out allies of little use to give their disheveled lives a place to nest. Others live unaware of their spiritual death and try to take the place that belongs to the Lord, building altars to rebellious thoughts that rise up against the mind of God. With the aid of technology, the ungodly man has grown other hands and other brains. God does not bring answers to his self-centered desires or, in the worst of cases, is not in his plans.
God stopped and called to humanity that first Christmas. He called us full of hope. He knew our flaws and sins and, even so, brought into the world the only solution to fix what seemed impossible. He called us to love us, though we did not deserve it; He became flesh so that we could see, because for some, faith would have to come through sight rather than through hearing His Word. God became flesh once and for all in the person of Jesus. A child Jesus, without age or stature, yet eternal and a giant, who would come to inaugurate the era of redemption in the planetarium of His grace. If, at this time, you again feel the Lord stop and call, turn all your praise into a red carpet; roll it out gratefully—and let Him in!
May God bless His word!