NKJV 365 Day Reading PlanSampel

We often romanticize the very first Christmas. We see the babe swathed in the blue night, sitting serenely in the stable with Mary and Joseph, with the shepherds looking on adoringly. In fact, Jesus was born in unsanitary conditions, surrounded by a stable full of filthy animals. His birth is not only the story of an arrival on earth; it is also the story of a departure from heaven. From earth’s perspective, unto us a child was born. But from heaven’s perspective, a Son was given (see Is. 9:6). Jesus, who was fully God, became a human born of a woman, who grew up in Israel, lived for about thirty years among His countrymen — every moment without committing a single sin or displeasing His heavenly Father to the slightest degree — and willingly died on a Roman cross to make a way for us to live with Him in eternity.

Taken from Start! The Bible for New Believers