“Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.” -Isaiah 53.4
It is now that we get to the heart of why Jesus was born: “surely he has borne our griefs.” All Jesus went through, birth, childhood, learning a trade, studying, ministering, training disciples, all of it led up to this; to Christ bearing our grief and sorrows on the cross. All that was accomplished by his birth was the coming of God into this world. If that was all that happened then we would still be dead in our sins. If Christ did no more than incarnate then there would be no point in celebrating his birth.
Thanks be to God that that’s not all he did!
