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Luke 2 – Inn or Home?
Inn or Home?
No room at the inn? Or no room in the guest house? (Luke 2:7). The latter translation is most likely the correct one. And if so, think how much more of an indictment this is. An inn is a place of business. I’ve been turned away because there were no rooms left. Such wasn’t personal. Was this rejection personal?
However, no room in the guest room? So, they go to a stable? It is very possible this “stable” was actually part of the house itself and not a separate structure. Whether the place of Jesus’s birth was a cave as tradition states, or in the animal section of the house is not important. What is important is the lack of proper hospitality. Couldn’t a place on the floor in the main house at least be provided? I’ve slept on many floors and couches. Where’s the compassion for a pregnant woman?
Family is who would have provided the guest room for those who had to travel to their ancestral home. Jesus, via through his mother and adopted father, was rejected from his own relatives’ home.
The point of this narrative seems to be, at least to me, there was no room for Jesus and his parents in the hearts of his own relatives. They were outcasts already, and Luke is concerned about those on the edge of society.
Do you have room for society’s downtrodden? That’s asking, do you have room for Jesus in your heart? Do you have room for Jesus in your home? Do you have room for Jesus in your family? Do you want to be part of Jesus’s family? Do you want those hurting from life itself as part of your family? Jesus has made room even for those who had no room for him.
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