At the heart of the Christian gospel is God’s desire to come and make his home with each one of us………but He will not force himself upon us – rather he waits to be asked in…..
How welcoming are we, not just to others, but also to God? Time and time again we see in the scriptures, where Jesus is hospitable to those whom society and his own tradition shun – women, the lepers, the ‘sinner’. Often the hero of his parables are those same people……the good Samaritan is the most famous.
Jesus also asks us, in what way are we different? It is easy to be hospitable to those we like and those we are impressed by…but what about those who are ‘messy’, those that irritate and those who are not (to paraphrase Margaret Thatcher) ‘one of us’. This is what marks us out as different from the world….
