Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

This is just one of the prophesies of Jesus being born in Bethlehem; one which also highlights the plight of the people of Judea.

No matter what would happen to the people of Judea, God would make sure the linage would be kept and the right people would be in the right place at the right time for Jesus to be born!

If God can do these sort of things, we know He can do so much more in our lives than we expect!

Luke 2:4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.

Some of us like to walk for pleasure – but this sort of journey which Joseph and Mary had to endure would have been arduous!

It would probably have taken them from four to seven days depending on how much they could have travelled each day with Mary being heavily pregnant at this time.

The prophesies had indicated Jesus would be born in Bethlehem and God made sure Mary was able to make that journey before the baby was born!

Psalm 119:9 How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.

God knows we are going to fall short of the law at some stage in our lives, but He also knows we are going to need those same laws to teach us how to live.

Instruction manuals are great if you get to read them and follow the advice in them – our bible are more than instruction manuals for our lives!

Jesus came into this world to show us the right way to live and to share that with people so they could spread the word.

God inspired the right people to write down those words so we would have them to be inspired by too.