Room in the Inn - Luke 2:7

Luke 2:7   “…because there was no room for them in the inn.”
   My friend Dave worshiped at a service last week on Christmas Day.  The minister told a story of an occasion when he was at another church years ago which presented a Christmas play.  The play director worked diligently with the students who were the actors and actresses, and they were well prepared the night of the performance.  The script emphasized the fact that no one gave Joseph or Mary a place to stay when they were in Bethlehem.  In the play Joseph and Mary went to three different inns trying to get a room.  At the first two inns, though Joseph pleaded with the innkeepers since Mary was so far in her pregnancy, the students portraying the innkeepers were gruff in turning away Joseph and his pregnant wife.  When they talked with the third innkeeper, Joseph and Mary pleaded for a room.  There was a pause, and then the innkeeper said, “Yes!  You can stay here!”  The play director got frazzled because now that Joseph and Mary were in an inn, how were they going to get to the manager scene?  The play hit some improvisation.  Yet the play director put actors to work to somehow get them to the manger scene.
   After the play, the minister went to the student who was the third innkeeper and asked him how come he changed his line in the play.  The boy looked at him and said, “I could not say ‘no’ to Jesus.”