Why was Jesus not born a king? - December 3, 2023

When we look at the birth of Jesus through a modern lens, we wonder why our King would be born in poverty to an immigrant working family. Jesus had the power to choose to be born the son of an earthly king, but instead, he was born to a poor lower-class family and entered the world to be swaddled in less than desirable cloth and laid in a borrowed feeding trough. Why?