Anticipating His Advent #14

In Luke 1, we have had a few zoom in accounts, where the focus has been on a few people from a rather obscure country.  In chapther 2Luke now zooms out to get the big picture, viewing the whole Roman Empire.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 

This is history - confirmed by documents of the day - a registration commanded by the Emperor himself.  In other words, know it or not, he had a part to play in the story.  This world leader did something that made it possible.  More than that, the events going on here will have an effect on the world, not just a little nation scorned by most of her neighbors.  When it comes to seeing what God is doing, we cannot use just one lense; we need to zoom in and out, lest we miss the important details or the big picture.  During the rest of this Advent season, may we take time to do both.