Christmas here is supposedly to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. However in examining of what essence is Christmas, this article withdraws from analysing questions such as "was Jesus truly born at December?", "history of Christmas", "who started Christmas?", and similar questions. But this will we do… what is the significance of Christmas? What is the implication or importance of Christ's birth? And our answer is simple!
Christ was born for redemption!
Redemption apart, Christmas is good for nothing. Subtract redemption, and the birth of Jesus is useless and as ordinary as your birth that you sometimes forget to celebrate your birthday. Huh!But God be thanked, such subtraction is non-sequitur in as much as incarnation is a primary and integral step in redemption. Simply put, God becoming man is the first ray of light that redemption is possible and in fact in progress.
For with God nothing shall be impossible. (Luke 1:37 KJV)
Therefore, the essence of Christmas is just one thing, not two, not three: redemption! Any other thing outside this is definitely off-point. Jesus himself declared: To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. (John 18:37). He was here for redemption. He was not here to announce publicly the virginity of Mary. He was not here to expose the courtship of Joseph with Mary. He was not here to console Mary of her childlessness, neither was He here to break the jinx of Galilee's prophetlessness. (John 7:52). He was here for redemption.
Today, Christmas is Christmas because of redemption. Is it not because He has saved us magnificiently and washed us from our sins that we are ecstatically basking today? And the remarkableness of the birth of Jesus is nothing but in the virgin birth and how the seed conceived by Mary is the Son of God
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:35 KJV)
Today, we rejoice at Christmas and at all times that Christ came, Christ died, Christ rose and sits at the right hand of God not for Himself but for us. He lived for us. He lived with us. Let's remember this and birth virtues, love and thankfulness every season.
Celebrate Jesus!
