As Christians we believe Christmas is the celebration of the birth of man’s redeemer, Jesus Christ. He was God’s only Son. He was sent to die in our place. An infant cannot know of such things and the parents, Mary & Joseph, were unaware of the reason for his birth. They knew God sent him. They knew the Holy Spirit caused Mary to become pregnant, yet there was so much they didn’t know. This is no doubt why Mary wept so bitterly when he hung on a criminal’s cross for no reason other than man’s arrogance & impudence. Men who should have known better … religious men. The spiritual leaders of the Jews. With all the hate that existed then and still exists now, was Christ’s death worth it. Millions shall be saved because of his one selfless act. Yes, it was well worth it.
Christmas has morphed into something materialistic, something to go into debt for. Our focus has shifted off the Giver of life onto the giver of laptops & PlayStations … nothing intrinsically wrong with that other than these things that surround us have begun to consume us. We are forgetting the reason for the season. We are ignoring the true meaning of the holiday in favor of temporal things. Gifts are wonderful and it is fun to exchange, but it should never be to the exclusion of honoring Christ, the one who bled and died for our disobedience … our sin.
If we ignored our wives the way we ignore the Lord we’d be divorced. As believers in Christ we must keep our priorities straight and our focus sharp. The Creator of the Universe and man’s first breath shouldn’t take a back seat to celebratory festivities, especially when the festivities focus on happiness, love and family alone. You see, those are honorable things to focus on but only with the inclusion of God, not his exclusion, He must be preeminent in each of our lives. Without Almighty God we would be lost in a very literal sense. Respect & revere the Lord for he is very much worth it. rlkeller
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