As we approach Christmas, we might be tempted to believe that Christ’s birth took place in a perfectly preserved state of peace, because that’s what we all hope our Christmas’s will look like. This, however, is a fiction. The chaos surrounding Jesus’ birth is almost unspeakable. Every last person near to him was affected by the chaos. It seemed to follow him wherever he went. No, Jesus was not born into a world of peace. If was going to embody the Prince of Peace promised in Isaiah, he had a lot of work to do.