Good morning. Luke chapter 2: Caesar decreed that a census would be taken of all the inhabited earth. God uses things of mankind without them knowing He is, to bring about His plans. He needed to get Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem for Jesus to be born as prophesied, and this was how He did it. Joseph was a descendent of David (and if the genealogy in the book of Luke is based on Mary, as many believe, then she too was a descendent of David, but through Nathan and not Solomon), and so that is why he went to Bethlehem where David was born. While they were there the days were completed for her to give birth. All of this had to work out at just the right time for what was prophesied to happen. She gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. What if there had been room? Would what followed have happened? The shepherds were told they would find the babe lying in a manger. They weren’t given GPS coordinates. It was thus obvious where to find Him. If Jesus had been born in the inn, would the innkeeper have allowed a bunch of shepherds who had taken care of smelly sheep to enter his inn? Such was the beginning of the King of kings. If we had needed a ruler, Jesus would have been born in a palace. Instead we needed a Savior who could relate to every person small or great. Father thank You for Christmas, when You sent Your Son to be born in a manger - to die for our sins.
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