The New-born Christ

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 51.

The New-born Christ.

The birth of Jesus Christ was a great thing for this world. In it God identified Himself with the whole human family. It is not, however, an event which should be remembered only once in a year. It is of continual and eternal benefit. It is a blessing every day and every moment to the children of men. To celebrate it once a year, on Christmas, is to hide its precious lesson, is to degrade the great Gift. While Jesus was born on some day of the year, that day, it is historically certain, was not December 25; and while He was born within one day, He was born for all time, one with humanity. But He would come closer to us than that, He would be born within us, so to speak; He would make us partakers of His own divine nature, even as He is made partaker of our human nature. He would be God within us, “the Word made flesh” in us through Jesus, the Son of God, the eternal Word. Knowing this, we will celebrate His birth every day, not by modified heathen orgies or customs, not by eating and drinking to the flesh, but by the new life of Christ, formed within, the hope of glory. O reader, this is better than all Christmas celebrations! “Taste, and see that the Lord is good.”