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Rediscovering the Heart of Christmas in Jesus' Birth

Dec 25, 2024

Christmas, as Christians celebrate or should celebrate it, is the story of God becoming a man. The birth of Jesus was no ordinary birth but the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies, prophecies that stated God Himself would enter our world as a human baby.

The scene is Bethlehem. What is about to happen will change the course of history.

Mary, a young virgin (a young lady who had never had sexual encounters), finds herself pregnant with a child through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Joseph and Mary struggled with what was happening, but God sent His messenger to explain it. They chose to believe and obey God.

Joseph embarked on a lifetime of being mocked by others for the birth of this baby, but he will stand by Mary and the baby that will be born, Jesus, the Savior of the World.

This scene expresses God's limitless love for the world. Man sinned and walked away from God, but God desired to bring us back to Him.

Jesus, God in human flesh, became one of us. He experienced all we experience. He laughed, cried, felt hunger, fatigue, grief, betrayal, and faced temptation while remaining sinless.

Jesus didn't come to condemn anyone. He came to reconcile all to God, to offer forgiveness, and to point us back to the Father.

God was in Christ, and Christ was in God. Jesus Christ was fully God and fully human. He became the perfect mediator between God and man, and He came to reconcile all to His Father.

As you celebrate Christmas, know that God loves you. His love is unlimited. He chose to come as a baby, live as one of us, and then give His very life to offer us hope, peace, and love.

Jesus gives eternal life. Eternal life is knowing God the Father and Jesus His Son.

Christmas is a time to remember and reflect on God's unimaginable love, reaching out to save and bring us back home to Him.

At Christmas, we celebrate Emmanuel, "God with us." The Creator of the universe, the infinite and eternal God, chose to become finite, to wrap himself in human flesh, to be vulnerable and small.

Imagine Mary looking at her Child's face, the Son of God, the Messiah. Imagine Joseph and Mary holding the One who holds all of us.

Jesus was born so that all could be rescued from the suffering of sin. He came for the poorest and the richest, the most wicked and the most moral. Jesus came for every language, every skin color, and every social condition. He came for the unworthy, forgotten, or lost.

So, as you sit with your family, consider the miraculous birth, but more than that, think of God loving you with infinite love. The eternal had entered time. The all-powerful had become helpless. And why? To restore the intimate communion between God and humanity lost in the Garden of Eden.

God said, "I love you so much that I will become like you, walk where you walk, feel what you feel, and ultimately take your punishment so that you can be restored to me."

This was Christmas—not just a historical moment but an eternal declaration: God is with us, God is for us, and God loves us.

Interesting Quotes

"Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey." Augustine

"See here, as in a glass, the infinite love of God the Father; that when we had lost ourselves by sin, God, in the riches of his grace, sent forth his Son, made of a woman, to redeem us." Thomas Watson

"The human race would have perished utterly had not the Lord and Savior of all the Son of God, come among us to put an end to death." Athanasius of Alexandria