Daily Sacrifice, December 25 (2:10-11)
Christmas Day
“The angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord” —Luke 2:10, 11.
THE miraculous birth of our Saviour is one of the foundation stones of our Christian faith. It is the companion truth to that of His expiatory sacrifice on the cross. Because of this, it will generally be found that he who denies the one denies the other. Too much importance therefore cannot be attached to the historic fact that Jesus was born of a virgin mother and that the “Child... born” was the “Son... given” (Isa. 9:6). He who deigned to enter human conditions by the birth in Bethlehem is the One “whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” (Mic. 5:2). To deny this is to repudiate the truth of the gospel, apart from which there is no hope for a lost world.
The Triumph of Christmas