The Inn Keeper

When Mary and Joseph got to Bethlehem they must have been greeted with people rushing around everywhere. People trying to find a place to stay, People that had got a place to stay out and about looking for food or even having a drink. There where also probably street sellers calling out trying to sell the goods to the travellers.

To the young Mary and Joseph it must have been a scary time, with Mary about to give birth, and Joseph trying his best to do his best to ensure they where safe.Knocking on doors finding every place full and unable to find a place to stay for the night.

When they finally had thought there was no where else to go they found an Inn keeper who took pity on the young couple and suggested they spent the night in his stable. Now I'm not sure if its me or not, but you would have thought they could have found a better place for Mary to have her Baby.

Almost every place they had tried had turned them away. This one inn keeper in Bethlehem had maybe seen the distress or the faces of the couple and realised Mary condition that he could not turn them down and could not see them left wondering the Streets.

OK it wasn't the penthouse suite but it was a dry warm place and would do the job. It Was all the Inn Keeper could give, his rooms where full and he couldn't start kicking people out after they had paid. He seemed a good man and probably wanted to do more to help but as it was, he gave everything he could.which turned out to be more than he knew.

That Stable turned out to be worthy of a King. It became the far destination of three Wise men. It became a place shepherds rush too. It became full of Angels. It was the only place the Inn Keeper could spare but the best thing was that he did spare it, and offered all that he had.

Sometimes we cant give God the best, sometimes we have to settle with just being able to give a little. We may not be able to give the penthouse suite along with hot tube and free mini bar. We may only have a shed to offer. But what does god do? he turns that small offering into the greatest gift.

Remember the loaves and fishes? a small boys dinner of 5 loaves and 2 fish became a banquet for 5000 people, and that Stable in Bethlehem became a place where Jesus King of the World, Prince of peace, Savior of men was born.