Jesus was the only baby who created his parents. He was the only newborn who created the place where he was laid. He was the only child who created the adults who celebrated his birth.

He made our world before he stepped into it at Christmas: "By Jesus all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together" (Colossians 1:16-17).

Then he stepped into the world he created, in power. I made a list of his miracles, in approximate chronological order: He turned the water to wine, healed the nobleman's son, helped the disciples make a miraculous catch of fish, freed a demoniac, healed Peter's mother-in law, cleansed a leper, helped a paralytic walk, healed a lame man, restored a withered hand, healed a centurion's servant, raised a widow's son to life, healed another demoniac, calmed a storm, healed the Gadarene demoniacs, raised Jairus' daughter to life, healed the woman with the issue of blood, gave blind men their sight, healed another demoniac, fed the 5,000, walked on the sea, healed the Syrophoenician daughter, fed the 4,000, healed the deaf and mute person, gave another blind man sight, healed a lunatic child, provided tribute money in a fish's mouth, healed ten lepers, healed the man born blind, raised Lazarus to life, healed the woman with infirmity, healed the man with dropsy, healed more blind men, cursed the fig tree, healed the high priest's servant, and helped the disciples make another miraculous catch of fish.

And of course, there was the matter of the resurrection and ascension. All that he did after Christmas. All that he can still do today, for "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

He will one day return to our planet in even greater power. On that day, "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:10-11). His first Advent points to his second, when his power rules all that is.