A SAVIOR IS BORN

A SAVIOR IS BORN

LUKE 2:1–20

 “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11)

Whether or not Mary and Joseph planned Christ’s birth this way, God certainly did. One of my favorite phrases in the birth narrative is humbly tucked in verse 6: “The time came for the baby to be born.” The time. The time toward which all “time” had been ticking since the kingdom clock struck one.

The words in Luke 2:6 refer to the most important segment of time since the first tick of the clock. The second hand circled tens of thousands of times for thousands of years, then finally, miraculously, majestically—the time came. God’s voice broke through the barrier of the natural realm through the cries of an infant, startled by life on the outside. The Son of God had come to earth, wrapped in a tiny cloak of human flesh. “She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (v. 7).