The single defining act of human history: the birth of Jesus Christ

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚: 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕

Centuries have passed, the greatest rulers and empires have crumbled into dust, but the birth of Jesus Christ dates and defines human history and has influenced our world beyond any other event.

Christmas is a unique opportunity both to celebrate this, as well as for all people to seek to understand its implications and importance for us.

The birth of that Jewish baby, in the humblest of circumstances to a poor, hardworking man and woman, had little impact at the time. But he, and they, are known the world over.

The mighty Caesars lived and died, but few know their names.

Yet billions of people know of “Joseph and Mary”, whose images have been on Christmas cards, icons, books, works of art, movies and plays during the two millennia since that first “Silent Night” in that “Little town of Bethlehem”.

Whatever your background, religion, belief system, I encourage you to reach out to him, no longer a baby, but now the Saviour (that’s the meaning of ‘Jesus’ or ‘Yeshua’) of all of us, and the ever-living King of the universe.

Once he came to our world, quietly and in obscurity, on God’s mission to save us. He will return, perhaps in our lifetime.

His appearance will be spectacular, seen by all, welcomed by those who trust in and love him, but feared and dreaded by those who despise, reject or even are merely indifferent to him.

As we approach Christmas, is Jesus Christ your beloved Saviour and Lord, or the Judge who will call you to account for why, as at that first Christmas, there has been “no room”?

“All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭7:14‬ ‭NLT‬‬