It's hard for me to understand why the King of kings and Lord of lords was put in a manger after His birth. It was a feeding trough for farm animals. That’s no place to put a baby much less the Son of God
Luke 2:7 "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."
So there was no room in the Inn. But this was Jesus. He deserved more. Much more.
Perhaps those common, dirty shepherds could only find Him in a barn.
In the manger Jesus identified with the poverty of mankind.
2 Cor. 8:9, "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich."
In the manger Jesus identified with our discomfort and struggles, and He was born to die for our sins. (Isaiah 53:3).
That humble baby in the manger reminds us that the greatest aspiration of the human soul is to seek the glory of Almighty God ahead of everything else (Matt. 6:33).
