Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

For days now the Lord has been repeating the phrase No Room. Among the Scriptures He led me to was Luke 2:7.

Everyone knows the story of the Birth of our Lord Jesus. How Joseph had to take the very-pregnant Mary to Bethlehem. How they were turned away because there was no room for them at the inn.

Why is it that there was no room at the inn? God asked. Obviously, all the rooms were filled with other travelers who were also in Bethlehem to be taxed, just as were Mary and Joseph. Still, here was a woman being great with child (V.6). Shouldn't someone have been willing to give up their room for this woman in need?

Then it hit me; the point God was trying to make. There was no room for them at the inn because the people there DID NOT KNOW WHO WAS IN THEIR MIDST. The very Son of God was about to make His appearance on this Earth. Immanuel, God with us; the very God of the universe cloaked in humanity. There. At the Inn. There. Turned away. Because no one recognized when God was in their midst!

How could they have missed it? This was their Messiah. This was the One they had spent their lifetimes waiting and looking for. Strangers from a faraway country knew of His birth. They read of His coming in the sky, and followed a great star to find Him (Matthew 2). Shepherds in the fields witnessed an angelic host proclaiming His arrival (Luke 2.8-14).

All of Heaven watched in awe and wonder.

All of history spoke of this very moment.

The excitement in the Spirit realm had been uneclipsed by any event ever in history.

Yet they, the chosen people of God; the very nation the Lord had raised as a praise and glory to His Name, filled up that Inn and went about their business totally oblivious to the matchless miracle being birthed in their midst.

Don't you think that if they had known Who was in their midst every one of them would have given up their rooms? Everyone would have bowed down before Him and rejoiced with the angelic host that night?

But they did not know, and so they turned Him away.

For three months now the Lord has been speaking to me of the sadness in His heart caused by His people's rejection. Not the chosen people who rejected Him 2000 years ago at His birth. But His chosen people today; His saints; those who are called by His Name.

The Lord laments for a people who have not learned to discern God in their midst. There has been a season in the Church when all we could do was wait for the Lord, and so we learned to wait. But we are in a season now of the Lord walking among His people, and yet we are still waiting! Like those at the Inn at the time of His birth, we are not discerning His presence.

If we were able to discern Him, our actions would be entirely different. Our Church services would be wholly different. Our sermons wouldn't matter. Our schedules wouldn't matter. We would be so overcome with joy at His appearing, we would give up our rooms, our agendas, our everything just for the wonder of His presence! Everything would STOP! - as it should - in the presence of our King.

But we go about our business as if nothing were happening when the very King of kings and Lord of lords is standing in our midst! We keep singing our songs and preaching our sermons, and we do not even know we are turning Him away, just as He was turned away from the Inn so many years before.

You come together to praise and worship Me and I cry out to you, I am here! I am here! But you do not see Me. You do not hear Me.

I weep for you. I yearn for you. I stand in your midst with my arms outstretched wide, longing to comfort you. Longing to heal you. Longing to be one with you.

But you do not hear Me. You do not see Me.

And once again, there is no room for Him at the Inn.

If we had been alive 2000 years ago, would we have given up our room for Him? Sure we would. IF we had known. IF we had discerned Him. IF our Spiritual senses had been sharpened to recognize Him at His coming. But Beloved, if we aren't able to discern His presence in our everyday lives; if we can't recognize Him in the circumstances He allows to correct and teach us; if we do not perceive His presence as we gather together to seek Him, then we are no different from those who turned Him away at His birth.

Matthew 13:14-15 tells us, And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

May the Lord open our eyes this Christmas season, that we might see Him; and unstop our ears, that we might hear Him; that it might never again be said of us that we missed Him at His appearing.
 

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