No Room for Jesus at Easter-part 1

No Room for Jesus at Easter-part 1

St. Luke2:7 states, And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”

       Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus were certainly good people.  Why did God the Father let Jesus, His only begotten son, be born in a cattle shelter which was perhaps a cave?  From our very finite understanding it would seem that there could have been at least a tiny room that no one was using.  However, God the Father let His only son be born in obscurity and humility.  On this blessed day of days, we should remember that, regardless of our circumstances, most of us were not born in a place of humility like Jesus.

       We enjoy the Bethlehem story at Christmas time, but we have a tendency during the Easter season to do the same thing to Jesus.  If we are not careful, we will get so involved in new Easter outfits, Easter baskets, coloring eggs, and patching holes in those awful blow up yard toys, that we forget the real story of Easter.  We won’t admit it, but we are so busy that we may not tell the good news of Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection that brought complete victory over sin.  Romans 6:23 reminds us, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”