The angel said to the shepherds, “And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger” (a manger is a box or trough to hold hay for cattle to eat).
If the angel had not given these specific instructions, the shepherds would never have thought to look for the King of Israel, the Messiah, in such a lowly place. They might have looked for him in the temple of religion, or the palace of the king, or in the halls of learning, but never in a stable. And (without the words of God's servants) if the only babe born that night was found in a manger, they would not have believed him to be the Messiah!
Thank God for his word which reveals the glory of our Redeemer and his humility in becoming poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich! Don't try to seek Christ except “according to the scriptures.”
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