All of life is designed with purpose. God’s works are not haphazard in design. What God has done, He has purposed. Jesus Christ birth had purpose. Your birth has purpose.
Let’s look at both of these births:
His Birth
The most important birth ever was the lord Jesus Christ. Obviously his birth had a significant purpose.
Luke 1:31 & 32:
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Not only did he take on the throne of David, but more importantly he became the redeemer of all mankind, which was a more precious purpose. Without our lord and savior Jesus Christ, mankind had no hope of salvation.
The Heavenly Father destined him to pay the ultimate price for the redemption of all mankind. He would bring into fruition the reality of a new birth to all those who desire to call God their Father.
Romans 3:24 & 25:
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
The most important birth after Jesus Christ is yours!
Your Birth
I would venture to say that all of you would agree that your birth was of utmost importance to yourself! Selfish about it or not, our birth is significant.
Unlike Jesus Christ you did not have a greeting party of angels to announce your birth, and later as a small child, you did not have some foreigners visit you with gifts of spices and gold. Regardless of how you got here, there is significance to your life even beyond what you may appreciate at this time in your “living career.”
God, the Heavenly Father, had a reason for your birth and He has a vital purpose for you since you became born again via Romans 10:9. God’s Word reveals the following truths about you:
| God says you are not your own: | I Corinthians 6:19 |
| God says you are a new creation in Christ: | II Corinthians 5:17 |
| God says you are His son: | I John 3:1 |
| God says He is now your Father: | Romans 8:15 |
| God says you are very important to Him: | Ephesians 2:10 |
There is nothing haphazard about your life. You have a purpose within the Body of Christ.
The most important purpose facing you is your walk in Christ.
There is a popular saying that goes like this: “You are born to live and you are born again to serve.”
God knew you before you were you! That being the case, you can realize you have a purposeful birth. You are special; you are God’s best; you are essential to the family of God.
II Corinthians 4:1-6:
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
In conclusion: As you celebrate the birth of your lord and savior Jesus Christ, remember his birth had great purpose behind it. And while you are celebrating his birth, remember you too have a dynamic purpose behind your birth.
Let’s do something about the significance of who we are in Christ with our Heavenly Father’s incorruptible and eternal seed in us. Our first birth is destined to dust. Our new birth in Christ is destined to eternal purposes beyond our wildest dreams.
- Bob Lindfelt
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