Luke 2:1-7 (MOFF)
1 Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.
2 (This was the first census, and it took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
3 So everyone went to be registered, each at his town,
4 and as Joseph belonged to the house and family of David he went up from Galilee to Judaea, from the town of Nazaret to David’s town called Bethlehem,
5 to be registered along with Mary his wife. She was pregnant,
6 and while they were there the days elapsed for her delivery;
7 she gave birth to her firstborn son, and as there was no room for them inside the khan she wrapped him up and laid him in a stall for cattle.

The nativity is something so many in the world know about, some have a carving, figurine, or picture of it, it is associated with the birth of the Messiah in the Christmas season. Although the nativity itself is not a biblical event, it’s what society-mostly unbelievers use to justify the “Messiah” whom most don’t believe in but will gladly celebrate that one time in the year when it’s acceptable.
No room for Jesus, no room for the king of kings, no room in the world that he had made. Imagine!
But we have and make room for other things daily.
God could have had a grander plan for the Messiah’s coming into the world, but it pleased Him to send the king into the world as a baby in a lowly manger.
Like the innkeeper that faithful night, so many of us have still not got room for Jesus in our lives and hearts.
The Greatest Christmas Pageant,” Barbara Robinson’s story of a church Christmas pageant took a definite twist one year when the Herdman children got involved. LeRoy Herdman was given the part of the innkeeper but on the night of the pageant, it ceased being a play for LeRoy, it was real in his mind. The characters playing Joseph and Mary ceased being his brother and sister and became real Joseph and Mary, a carpenter and his young and pregnant wife showing up at LeRoy’s “real” inn, needing a room. LeRoy truly felt sorry for them and wanted to help them. So, when the time to deliver his one line, he said it right: “I’m sorry, we have no room.” But then he inserted his own ad-libbed line: “but you can stay in MY room.”
Wow, we know the real story tells us that Joseph and Mary ended up in the adjacent stable but the question for today is this: Why is it that over 2,000 years after the innkeeper’s story many still don’t have room for Jesus?
We fit Jesus into a convenient mould for when we feel the need to be pious, righteous, and religious, but we get irritated when he makes demands on us. If God would only stay in His little box and come out when we pull the string, like a jack in the box because our lives are so full and busy, that there’s so much to do without having to make more room for Jesus.
There are so many reasons today why there is no room for Jesus in “us,” reasons that differ from person to person such as pleasure-Luke 8:14, money-Luke 18:18-20, business, career-Luke 12:16-21, religion-Luke 11:37-44. The same state of no room is in our societies today.
Many political leaders have taken the room meant for Jesus in the heart of the people that they have a sign proclaiming no room for the Master.
Ethics and character say no room for Jesus.
Abortionists say no room for Jesus.
Same-sex marriage says no room for Jesus.
False prophets say no room for Jesus.
Marriages and families say no room for Jesus.
Even some parts of the body of Christ say no room for Jesus.
What do you say?
According to Revelation 3:20, Christ is standing at the door of your inn, knocking, will you let him in? Have you got a room ready for him? Or have you got a “no room” sign-up?
Shalom