Christmas

The “Holiday Season” is in full swing.  Santa pictures at the mall, Christmas music on the radio, lights on houses, and the wonderful “Christmas rush” in retail stores.  

But let’s not miss the real reason we celebrate Christmas.  It’s not about going deep into debt every year to get better gifts for your kids than the family down the street; it’s not about goodwill for your fellow man.

Instead of worshipping ourselves and our gifts, lets focus on the real gift of Christmas – God robed in flesh, God among us, perfection in a temporal shell,  sent to be crushed so that God’s righteous wrath would be satisfied according to the Law that would make a way for all who would believe in Him, who were chosen before the foundation of the world.

Thinking, reading, studying about these incredible truths is an event for any and every day of the year, not just during the month of December.  All of the gift giving could go away, all of the decorations aren’t necessary, the music could go silent, and there would still be Christmas, because of Christ.

Many of these things are traditions for a lot of us, and that’s fine as long as we give proper place to God and the culmination of his redemptive plan this season.

May God give you an incredible Christmas, one that is centered around Him.