How God Views Your Birthday

We have now established that the Bible records negative examples of birthday celebrations, while it is silent on celebrating, or even identifying, the birthdays of all of God's faithful servants—including Christ.

But what does the Bible specifically say about your day of birth?

Most people think that the day of one's birth is special. Celebrating it certainly does seem and feel like the right thing to do. Yet, Solomon was inspired to write, "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth" (Ecclesiastes 7:1).

Like Job, Jeremiah also cursed the day of his own birth: "Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed…Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?" (Jeremiah 20:14, 18).

If the day of our death is better than the day of our birth, and some of God's greatest servants said that their birth date was far from being a special day, then how special can this day be? According to scripture, it is not a time to jump for joy, sing and expect gifts, simply because one is born into the world on a specific date.