The inn serves as a temporary dwelling while we are away from home. But there was not place for the beloved Son of God when He came into the world. “There was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7).
It does not say that the inn was full (though it may have been), but the Spirit of God says that there was “no room for them.” Was it because Mary and Joseph were the instruments chosen of God to introduce His well-beloved into the world?
There is no place for Him today in this world. If you go somewhere with your best friend and they refuse Him entrance, would you still go in without Him, leaving Him outside? May this exercise each of us about our associations.
We find a second inn in Luke 10:34: “Brought him to an inn, and took care of him.” This inn is a beautiful picture of the assembly, where the Lord brings us, where the innkeeper (a picture of the Comforter) takes care of us, and where He teaches us to care for one another (1 Cor. 12:25). In the first inn (the world) there is no room for Him, though Christians may come in without Him. In the second, the assembly (that inn of the Lord), there is a place for each believer while waiting to take up residence forever in the place the Father has specially prepared (John 14:2). Which inn would you that He find you in?
M. Payette