The question has been brought up: should we even observe Christmas? Not just the secular stuff but the religious/spiritual observances as well. Are we making a mistake in worshipping a baby? As will not surprise any of you, I have some thoughts on the matter.
Yes, it is true that we do not celebrate the birth of famous people on their birthdays, but then there was nothing special about those births. There was no miraculous conseption, no signs in the heavens, no prophecies being fulfilled. God was the first One to make a big deal about the birth of His Son.
It is also true that we now serve a risen and glorified Lord. But why is it significant that He is glorified? Wasn't He in glory in the Old Testament? Isn't the whole point that He first humbled Himself? That one moment He was in glory and the next He was inhabiting a tiny organism inside a created being, dependent on her for life?
When it comes right down to it, there is something awe-inspiring about every event surrounding the first coming of our Lord. And isn't that what worship is--standing in awe at what God has done? Am I worshipping the baby when I stop in wonder that God would take on the formof a man?
And is it possible that in our eagerness to avoid worshipping a Baby, we might forget to worship at all?