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Advent Royalty?

Why was Jesus born to Mary and Joseph?  Why was he born to a young poor mother with her equally poor carpenter husband?  Why wasn’t he born to royalty?  Wouldn’t it have made more sense to have the King of Kings and Lord of Lords actually born to a King?  Wouldn’t it have been easier for him if he had been born into a royal family with money and power?

Jesus could have been born anywhere, to anyone, but as we have already looked at, the timing was perfect for when he was born, and Mary and Joseph were perfect too.  It was not an accident that the Messiah was born to two poor Jewish people who lived in a very small and poor village and were complete unknowns.  Mary and Joseph were very poor.  Joseph was able to provide for the family through his carpentry work, but that was anything but lucrative.  They had just enough to provide a small roof over their heads and a little food on the table, but they worked very hard for those things and they did not come easily.

Think about how the message of the birth of the Messiah would have been different if He had been born to royalty in a palace.  Would it have still traveled to the ends of the earth, or just to other royalty?  Would it been good news for all people, or just those with money and power?  If Jesus had been born into royalty it would have been very difficult for people to accept that He really came for everyone.  It would have been easy to think that because he was born to royalty, with wealth and privilege, that the message of the Messiah was only intended for those with wealth and privilege.

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Part of what makes the birth of the Messiah so amazing is that Jesus was born to poor relative nobodies, and yet the message of Christmas was still able to spread to those with wealth and privilege and those with none.  Coming to Mary and Joseph helped to solidify the fact that Jesus did not just come for one group of people, but He came for everyone.  He came for the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich, and for all of us in between.

Praise God that there is no one who is too far away from the message of Christmas.  The miracle of the birth of the Savior of the world is for everyone, for all of us.  We don’t have to have everything figured out, or our lives in order, or everything working right for the message of Christmas to be for us.  Jesus Christ came for every one of us, regardless of who we are, where we have been, or the choices we have made.  Hear the good news of the birth of the Messiah, and know that it truly good news of great joy for all people.

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“But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people:  to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord” Luke 2:10-11.

God bless, Rev. Liz Arakelian, www.LivingHopeEC.org

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