A Split History… Hello weekend readers. I hope your Christmas was wonderful and filled with the joy of our incredible Savior. My musings today came out of the history that split the world, and I am not talking about nations against nations. So hang on to this historical ride—you’ll be surprised!

In our country we just flipped from 2025 to 2026. Actually, just about every country in the world has adopted the Gregorian calendar that uses Christ’s birth as its base. Four nations don’t. Instead they use distinct civil calendars. Those 4 nations are Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran and Afghanistan.

It’s true that the ‘World’s History’ is split into two but not on the basis of the birth of great conquerors like Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Nor is it divided on the basis of great thinkers like Socrates or Aristotle. So what is it? Rather, history is split into two on the basis of the birth of a Man, who conquered not the lands but the hearts of the people for God, whose life-transforming message was so simple that even a simpleton could understand. When I read this it just hit me like a baseball bat. Honestly, who would have thought of it that way – GOD!

One theologian puts out these questions for us to ponder on this subject:
1) Do we have a BC and AD experience ourselves?
2)  Are our lives markedly different after Christ than before?
3)  Or, have we confessed Jesus with our lips while our hearts have yet to be “all in”?

Well, those are certainly tough questions to wrestle with. It’s probably not something many of us had thought about but, if we’d think about this history a bit, we’ll find out that it’s really an eye-opening part of our lives. I just might get us to thinking a bit deeper.

The most significant event in the story of the world was the birth of Christ. It stands over all other events, period. And even more, this event—the piece of history was not for the elite, or for the ideas of learned people; this history was for each and every one of us, from the beginning to our move to heaven! Just as our epochs are divided into BC and AD, so are our lives with respect to the moment we trust Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins.

Read this word from the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:20-21, from the Message Translation: “The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It’s written, I’ll turn conventional wisdom on its head, I’ll expose so-called experts as shams. So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn’t God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered stupid—preaching, of all things! —to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.”

As we walk into this new year 2026, let’s take time to focus on the new life Christ has given to us. Talk to Jesus and take a time in his presence and. Ask the questions you wrestle with, Jesus is there to help you. And in 2026, decide to recommit yourself to him and yes—let Jesus take you further from your ‘BC’ and deeper into your ‘AD’! AMEN.