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(Unsplash) Read Romans 8:28 That first Christmas, all eyes were on Augustus — the cynical Caesar who demanded a census so as to determine a measurement to enlarge taxes even further. At such a time, who was interested in a young couple making an eighty-mile trip south from Nazareth? What could possibly be more important than Caesar’s decisions in Rome ... or his puppet Herod’s edicts in Judea? Who cared about a tiny baby born to an unknown teenage Jewessin an obscure Bethlehem barn? God did. Without realizing it, mighty Augustus was only an errand boy for the commencement of the f...