There Was No Room

Have you ever considered that there just wasn’t any room in the lives of the people associated with Jesus of Nazareth for the things that God had planned?

At the very beginning, there was NO ROOM for Joseph in the conception of Jesus for it was determined that He would be conceived by the Holy Spirit.

An out-of-wedlock pregnancy was such a scandal in that culture that there was NO ROOM for Joseph and Mary in society.

When Mary was ready to deliver Jesus, there was NO ROOM with a clean or warm environment in the inn, so a barnyard had to do.

King Herod heard that a king was going to be born in Bethlehem, and Herod wasn’t ready to give up his throne. Just to be sure this pretender to his throne would be “taken care of”, King Herod ordered all the boys in Bethlehem two years old and under to be killed. As far as Herod was concerned, there was NO ROOM for Jesus in Bethlehem.

There was NO ROOM in Judea (the people to whom he had come) so the family had to move to Egypt, one of the places most despised by Jews. The name of Egypt itself was synonymous with brutal suffering and slavery inflicted on the Jews centuries earlier.

As Jesus grew to maturity and began His public ministry, He was criticized by the Jewish leaders for His claim to be the Son of God. There was NO ROOM for Jesus in God-fearing, church-going religious society.
For some people there was NO ROOM even for Jesus’ miracles since it was claimed that they were powered by the devil.

In Gethsemane Jesus sweated blood in anticipation of His coming horrible death, but there was NO ROOM, no wiggle-room out of the will of God and He accepted it.

When it came time for Jesus’ delivery to the Romans for execution, Jesus stopped His followers (especially Peter with his sword) from blocking the process. There was NO ROOM in the plan of God for any hindrances.

Through all of Jesus’ questioning by the authorities, there was NO ROOM for any rebuttal.

In all the bloody pain of the scourging and crucifixion, there was NO ROOM for mercy.

On the morning of the resurrection, Jesus came out of His tomb because there was NO ROOM for His continued death in the plan of God.

Why did He come anyway knowing that there would be NO ROOM for Him?

Jesus came to MAKE ROOM for us even though He knew He would be greeted with the “no vacancy” sign at every turn and corner of His physical, earthly life.

As a lyric in “Mary Did You Know” goes, “Did you know this child that you delivered would soon deliver you?”

He came anyway even though there was NO ROOM for Him, because His death and resurrection MADE ROOM for every person to accept His sacrifice, to accept His Lordship, and to be born again in eternal union with Himself.

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