This Day

“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”  
(Luke 2:11)

The event really happened. Jesus, the Son of God, was born. The text says he was born “this day.” It may not have been in December. It may not have on the twenty-fifth of the month. But when the angel delivered his message to the shepherds it was on “this day, the same day of His birth.

“This day,” tells me there was a specific day about two-thousand years ago when Christ was born. There was a day when God became flesh and we can no more deny it than to say George Washington was not born and never existed because we do not know the exact day of his birth. Perhaps God did not reveal in His word the exact day because we might see the day as being more important than the event and start worshipping the day.

There was born “this day” in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord. Every time we sing a Christmas carol we are giving testimony that on “this day” whatever the day, that Christ was born. Just as we do not know the exact day of His birth, even so we do not know when He shall return. Only God knows “this day.”

Merry Christmas to you and to all your family.