Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.  As many were astonished at you - his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind - so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.  Who has believed what they heard from us?  And to whom has the arm of the lord been revealed?  For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.  He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isaiah 52:13-53:3

I thought I would start out this post by first posing the question…why do we celebrate Christmas?  Depending on whether you hold to the faith that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh, you may say that we celebrate Christmas because of the birth of Jesus or if you don’t believe in Jesus you might say well we celebrate it because its a time when we can show kindness and love in giving or maybe its just as simple as “its a day off…I’ll take it!” 

Lets say you are a follower of Christ, then many Christ-ians (Christ-followers) would say we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ born to Mary who was a virgin impregnated by the seed of the Holy Spirit.  Many would acknowledge that we do not know the exact time when he was born but it really doesn’t matter as we celebrate the birth on December 25. 

But is really his birth we are celebrating? We don’t celebrate my birth on a Global scale. 

No, its not the birth that was the defining event.  It was his death. 

Isaiah when speaking by the spirit of God painted a picture long before God had given Mary his blessing.  When you read what the prophet Isaiah said we see how God is in control of all that goes on in this world.  God’s ways are not like our ways.  Where we might have jumped to the point and brought Messiah to save the people (assuming we would have thought of such a thing) he let the world reach a climax to which he would use as a springboard to propagate the good news of a redeemer. 

No the truth is the insignificant birth of Jesus was inaugural birth of a redeemer who would one day free us from this “play world”  the Matrix -where troubles abound and reality is skewed- and bring us into a real relationship with the one who created us and to live with him in the real world.  But even though we live in the world of “play” we can still abide now with Christ in the real world through the understanding of how he redeemed us.