The Miracle of Christ's Birth Is My Wonderful Comfort

How does Christ’s holy conception and birth benefit me? 

Christ was not only the son of Adam, that is, a true man. 

• Christ occupied a position like that of Adam. 
• Christ is the last Adam. 

Just as the first Adam represented me when he fell into sin and I was thus born in sin, 

• so also Christ represents me and I share in His holiness. 
• This does not mean that I am now born without sin. 
• Rather, it means that Christ covers the sin in which I am conceived and born. 

The Father does not look at me as I am in myself, 

• but looks upon me in Christ. 
• Christ’s holiness, His purity and innocence are imputed to me 
• so that the Father regards me as holy, pure and innocent. 

This is a wonderful comfort for me. 

• By nature I am born a child of wrath.
• Like all other children I was conceived and born in sin and subject to condemnation. 
• However, through God’s grace in Christ I am sanctified, 
• and Christ covers my sin so that I am acceptable in God’s sight. 

In a way the miracle of Christ’s birth is reflected in my miraculous rebirth. 

• Through the work of God the Holy Spirit, new life is wondrously conceived in me 
• and I am reborn. 
• And through this “holy re-conception” I am being transformed 
• so that more and more I display this innocence and perfect holiness of Christ.

Adapted Excerpt From Van Delden's Only By True Faith