"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from ever-
lasting."
Often, God works from and in obscure places. Bethlehem was certain-
ly not Rome, or Babylon, or even Jerusalem. Still, it would be the place where the now-incarnated King of Glory would be born into the fallen world. Bethlehem became the "hinge" between Christ's heavenly past; and His current state as the God-Man Lord of of heaven *and* earth, as He is the Head of His church.
Are our situations in life down here a bit on the "humble" side? Let us not think that God cannot and will not visit us in our lowly conditions. He delights to do so--and Bethlehem is proof of this.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Those whose hearts follow hard after the Lord have the right hand of God upholding them." --Jeremiah Bur-
roughs, in, "Gospel Worship"]
