No Room

NO ROOM

Two little significant words: “no room.”

The inn had no available rooms.

Because of the new census being taken,

Bethlehem was overflowing with citizens.

"No rooms" may have been passed along the street.

"No rooms" greeted many who stood on tired feet.

Amidst the excitement of seeing family and friends,

there was no rooms for these travel-worn citizens.

The streets were crowded with visitors.

The inns were full with weary travelers.

The innkeepers had no more available rooms

though one innkeeper offered shelter, none too soon.

Did this innkeeper realize he was part of God's plan?

Had he prayed, "O Lord, may my life bless other humans?"

Or was he in it just for a profit?

Surely he knew the stable wasn't fit.

Did the innkeeper take pity on their plight?

Did other travelers sleep under the stars that night?

Was Bethlehem's weather forecast chilly or mild?

Did he know Mary was expecting her first child?

Mary and Joseph were offered a roof over their head.

A humble, crude protection without even a bed.

Not the delivery room one would expect

though this baby's birth was foretold by prophets.

There were no rooms, but God provided in the 11^th hour.

Yes, even these parents had to wait on God to reveal his power.

Not in the way one would expect to be sent

but in a way only God would invent.

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No room history writes.

No rooms available that night.

No rooms anywhere.

No rooms to share.

Rejected even before He was born.

Later He would be beaten and scorned.

Promised as the Savior of the world

yet born in a humble cattle fold.

The question of the hour is: do you have room in your heart?

Have you rejected God and His Word or have you given God your heart?

Have you said to God there's "no room" for you?

Or have you found His promises to be true?

Though you may have rejected Him

God will never reject you. Amen!

Today, ask God to come in.

You'll be blessed again and again.

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.)

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,

and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.

She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger,

because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:1-7

He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.

Isaiah 53:3