It is Christmas Day 2023.
For the most part, the world disregards the true meaning of this holiday, draping it with images that have nothing to do with Jesus' birth. Believers, on the other hand, reverently approach it with heartfelt awe and wonder ... to us, Christmas represents God's gift to a lost and dying people. Matthew 1:18-21 ...
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.
But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
1. Jesus is the Savior who delivers us from sin and death (Matthew 1:21).
2. He is the Christ who fulfilled the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 5:17).
3. And He is Emanuel ... God with us (Matthew 1:23).
We celebrate Christmas because a Rescuer came to save us from our hopeless situation. The Son of God did not stay in heaven but came to where we are.
From the Got Questions website -
In Texas in 1987, a toddler named Jessica McClure fell into an eight-inch well casing. Down she went, becoming stuck twenty-two feet below ground. They took immediate action once people discovered that “Baby Jessica” was in the well. They didn’t tell her to find a way to climb back up, and they didn’t just shout happy thoughts to encourage her. No, they went down to where she was and got her. They did whatever it took. Rescuers worked nonstop for fifty-eight hours to free her.
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve fell. Down they went, dragging all humanity with them into the darkness and death of sin. And what did God do? He did not tell us to find our own way out of the mess we were in, and He did more than shout down happy thoughts to us from heaven. No, He came down to where we were and got us.
That’s what Christmas is all about ... Jesus coming down to rescue mankind.
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