12 Days of Christmas - The Inn Keeper

I have a news flash for you—there was no inn keeper and there was no inn. Most English translations of Luke 2:7 say, 'there was no room for them in the inn.' The New International Version translates the Greek word as 'guest room'. Mary and Joseph were possibly staying with extended family. They had travelled to Bethlehem because Caesar Augustus was taking a census and that's where Joseph's family was originally from. The Bible also doesn't mention a stable. In Bible times, the animals shared the semi open part of the house on the ground floor and people slept on the first floor. Regardless of where they stayed, there was  no guest room for them and they had to stay downstairs with the animals. I wasn't there and the Bible doesn't give us much information but the important fact is that someone made room for them, even if it was with the animals. 

Life gets very busy, especially at Christmas. It's easy to fill our days with shopping, catching up with friends, binging Netflix, computer games, scrolling through social media, etc. Have you made room for Jesus this Christmas?