Another Way to Celebrate Christmas

It is important that we remember That Silent Night and that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. The emphasis on the Baby Jesus and The Nativity is a good thing! To remember God became a human being the same way we all do, as a baby is profound and deserves attention. That said, Christmas is also Jesus’ birthday, and we celebrate a person’s birthday at the age they are on that birthday, ergo we don’t have to only depict and celebrate Jesus’ Birth one way, there is room for the Baby in the Manger and to encounter Christ now, as an adult and worship Him and spend time with him in a party with our Risen Lord and Adult Savior!

Jesus is celebrating his 2027th Birthday! Most scholars agree He was born between 6 and 4 B.C. which counts down to 0 B.C. And then starts 1 A.D. and counting upward to our current year of 2022 A.D.

Our God and Savior deserves to be engaged, communed with, and to celebrate with us in The Spirit for his birthday! Yes we should share his first birthday highlights, but also connect with him now, as He is, reigning at The Father’s right hand and in our hearts! Christmas is not suppose to just be some memorial or feast that looks only backwards to 6 to 4 B.C., but it is meant to also a living celebration of our fellowship, friendship, and love with Christ our God! Who lives and breaths and deserves us singing “happy birthday to you!” We should party in The Spirit with our Lord, inviting him to our Christmas dinners and festivities! Christmas is not a requiem, it is reason to honor the living Lord and spend time with Him! Its time to do more than remember “Joy to the World” and experience it in real time in our relationship with Jesus! Christmas is not dead, its not a memorial, it is a birthday and its suppose to be a time we spend it with the grown up birthday boy, Immanuel! Amen.

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