Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Bethlehem

Bethlemen. The tiny town of the Bible. Bethlehem. Small and insignificant. Barely a blip on the radar screen. Bethelehem was just a small city. It wasn't important; yet God chose to use it. He chose a king from that small city. He promised that Bethlehem would not be forgotten. About a thousand year later, Joseph and his wife to be, Mary, make their way to Bethlehem, which by this time is known as the city of David. Soon it is to be known by yet another name. As Mary and Joseph make their way through this small city, which is probably crawling with people because of the census, they finally make to probably the only inn in the entire town only to discover that there is no room. But I'm sure that in seeing Mary's extremely pregnant belly the innkeeper did the best he could for the couple and made them as comfortable as possible in his stable. Though I know God's timing is best, you would think that Jesus could have picked a much better time to enter the world; but He chose that night in that stable in Bethlehem. For a small, insignificant town, Bethlehem surely does have a lot going on inside it's gates.

"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be a ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times." Micah 5:2

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