There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

For God so loved the world He gave His One and Only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

So Joseph also went up form the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence – “Not unto us, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory.”