The Christmas story is a funny story. For all eternity, God had been planning on sending his Son into the world to save fallen humanity; and yet when we read the story, it seems rather poorly planned (at least, according to what I would have done). Think about. You have shepherds welcoming the Messiah! Shepherds weren’t high on anyone’s social registry. If you thought the shepherds were out of place, wait until you see the magi! They were gentile astrologers. They just did not belong. There was also this major celestial event—a star! And yet, nobody seemed to pay any attention to it except for those pagan astrologers. All Jerusalem certainly wasn’t breaking out their telescopes and wondering what it could mean. And when the magi come into Jerusalem to ask for directions, no one accompanies them to see for themselves this one born king of the Jews. And Bethlehem