Newborn King: No Room
Two thousand years ago there was no room for the Savior. Can the same be said of us today?
When it comes to your heart, where is Jesus this Christmas Eve?
Safe at home? Or out back in a shed somewhere?
Luke 2:1-6
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,
With everything else God arranged for the birth of the Savior of the world –
-generations of prophecies promising His arrival
-the angels carrying out missions
-the magi searching the sky
-Mary’s pregnancy
-Joseph’s dream
Why couldn’t/didn’t God arrange for a place for Jesus to be born?
The fact is, God did arrange a place…a manger.
God did arrange the first rejection of the Savior just before His birth. And a visible reminder of the rejection that would happen again and again, even today.
Do you have room today for Jesus?
“In the Bleak Midwinter”
by Christina Rossetti
What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.