Why do we love to celebrate the Birth of Jesus more than His Death? “Well, duuuuh!” is probably what you were thinking, right? And yet, consider the words of Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 Luke 2:1- 40Matthew 27:11-66

Let’s spend a few moments thinking about the admonitions of Ecclesiates 7: Obviously, we don’t think of death being better than birth- ours or Jesus’. So why don’t we? Because: “Birth is such a wonderful beginning!” But Jesus’ death, and ours, was/is also a beginning of eternal consequence, 1Cor.15:12-22; “At birth, we’re so full of life- and at death…” But life does not consist in the things that “we” think it does, Luke 12: “Birth is such a happy time, and death is so sad.” But that all depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? “Yes” birth is a happy time, but death needn’t be so sad, Rev.14:13 > 20:12-15.

The bottom line: What’s the Point? God views birth/death differently than we do because He is eternal- not bound by time. One of the great struggles of life is for us to see with divine perspective- to “see” things, to the degree possible, as God does. God never commanded us to celebrate the birth of Jesus. This doesn’t mean that His birth wasn’t important, it just emphasizes that He was born for one purpose: to live a sinless life and become the sacrifice for our sins. 2Cor. 5:21; Acts 2: Therefore, the command was to remember and commemorate His death each week through the simple, sweet, memorial of the Lord’s Supper, Luke 22:14-19.

So…. How do you view life and death? Happy to celebrate the birth once a year with material things, but not really willing to lovingly commemorate the death with spiritual devotion weekly? Maybe it’s a vision problem. Whose eyes are you using?