Christmas is more crazy than baby

Pastor Mike Novotny

It took me 41 years of celebrating the birth of Jesus to realize this truth: the Bible’s Christmas is more crazy than baby. Read the two accounts of Jesus’ birth in the Bible—Matthew 1 and Luke 2—and the baby Jesus is barely mentioned. You won’t catch how many pounds or ounces Jesus weighed or how much hair the holy infant had because the gospel writers want you to know about the crazy context of our Savior’s birth.

Like Caesar Augustus, the pagan ruler who wanted to count the population so he could tax them and control them. And Joseph of Nazareth, a poor carpenter who would need weeks off of work to travel to Bethlehem for the census. And the B&B of Bethlehem, whose “no occupancy” sign forced Mary to push through the contractions surrounded by animals who didn’t go to nursing school. Can you imagine it?! It must have been crazy.

But guess who came in the middle of all that crazy? The baby. “While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them” (Luke 2:6,7).

Your life might be crazy right now. Too many miles on the road. A complicated family. But take heart! Our Jesus comes into the middle of the crazy. He did back then. He still does today.