Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS... Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:30-31, 34-35
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins."
Matthew 1:19-21

Christmas is the celebration of the incarnation, when the eternally begotten Son of God became a man so He could live, die, and rise to save His people from our sins.

No one knows what day of the year Jesus was born. But that doesn’t matter! The day is not the point; what happened is the point. Therefore, Christians do not celebrate the day, we celebrate the incarnation.

Technically, the incarnation was not on the day Jesus was born, it was the day He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, nine months before He was born in Bethlehem.

I believe the incarnation is arguably the greatest miracle ever. Some might insist that the resurrection is the greatest miracle. In my mind, it is not surprising that death and the grave could not hold Jesus. But the incarnation? That is something in a category by itself. Think about it.

How could the infinite Son of God fit inside of a finite human body? Yet the Bible says the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Jesus bodily! (Colossians 2:9)
Thinking further, how could the eternal Son of God who was a Spirit from eternity past be “limited” to time and space? Truly the incarnation is a miracle in the first degree.

What could possibly be wrong with celebrating so great a miracle? So, celebrate the incarnation! And since we do not know when it happened, December 25 is as good as any day, especially when so much of the world shuts down for it—whether they know why or not!

Merry Christmas & Incarnation Day!