A Big God for Little People
Have you ever thought what an amazing thing it is that God prepared beforehand that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem? Micah 5:2 records "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." That was His prophecy of where the Messiah would be born. But there was one problem. Joseph and Mary were in Nazareth not Bethlehem. That was no problem. God just put in the heart of Caesar Augustus that all of the Roman world should be enrolled each in his own town. And guess what? Joseph was from Bethlehem. God moved the heart of the king to get two little people where he wanted them to be.