What Is Christmas? Is it an endless shopping list or a depleted bank account or an overflowing credit card? Is it fir trees, candy canes, holly wreaths, bells, tinsel or toys? Is it the sound of piped music played to set the mood for maximum consumer response to insure a seasonal commercial success? Is it Santa; photos, office parties or holiday breaks?
Is Christmas a family gathering around lavishly spread Christmas dinner or a barbecue and the inevitable over-indulgence that seems to follow? To give Christmas a sacred touch, is Christmas attending a concert or carol sing or switching channels to catch a traditional seasonal Christmas movie?
A Christ-centred Christmas is about perishing men needing to be rescued and lost men needing to be saved. Christmas is God giving His Son to the world and His Son giving Himself for our sins. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Christmas is Christ the Son of God becoming the Son of Man that sons of men might become sons of God. (I John 3:1) Christmas is much more than tinsel, ribbons, presents and parties or a hectic rushing to and fro; giving and getting temporal gifts that will have no value in eternity. It is the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who came to give us the greatest of all gifts, eternal life
If you are one of those seeking to know the true meaning of Christmas, He stands ready to come into your heart this season and share the true meaning of His birth, life, death and resurrection. Is there room in your Christmas for the real Gift of Christmas? Why not open your heart to Him in real faith and He will come into your heart and life? Then you can truly say with Paul and those of us who have received Him, "Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!"
No comments:
Post a Comment