“My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”
John 14:2-3
The original word for hospitality is a combination of two different words: love and stranger. The ultimate form of hospitality is when you show or extend love to a stranger, an outcast, or a person in need. When you stop and think about it, isn’t that precisely what God did for us? While we were strangers, sinners, and enemies of the cross, God sent His one and only Son Jesus Christ down to earth to pay the price that we could never pay so that we might be welcomed into His family as His children. And even though Jesus was homeless for the last three years of His life, Jesus was the most hospitable person to have ever existed because He made every stranger, outcast, and person in need feel welcomed and loved as they were. Jesus showed us that hospitality has more to do with your heart than your home and hospitality is the first step of love.
