Christmas is certainly the most wonderful and most beautiful time of the year. You’d really agree if you took a walk in my neighborhood after dark. For some, like my niece, it’s the most giving time of the year. Her nicely decorated Christmas tree has no room to hold the mountain of various wrapped gifts laid around. I bet none is tagged “Auntie Melody”.
You would have to be living under a rock to not have heard about Christmas.
The Oxford dictionary describes it as an annual festival for Christ’s birth, celebrated on December 25th.
While I do love the idea of celebrating Christ’s birth, I don’t believe that December 25th was the day of Jesus’ birth.
I shared this with my students and suddenly became the Grinch. But before you start to call me the same, hear me out.
The Bible has no record of December being the month of Jesus’ birth. In fact, the details surrounding His birth point us away from the month of December. Biblical and historical evidences show that Jesus is not the reason for the season. Christmas celebrations are traced back to mid-winter solstice festivities involving revelry and human sacrifices. December 25 was celebrated as a pagan festival long before Jesus was born. But that’s a discussion for another nugget. If you are curious and have a piqued interest, make the effort to read a few of the many resources that are available at your finger tips. Just ask Google, Siri, or Alexa.
Ok, fine, call me the Grinch. But whatever your take is, the fact is that Jesus Christ was born, and that, my dear friends, was the greatest, most valuable, and undeserving gift ever given to man. This heavenly being was wrapped in the covering of humanity, and unlike the trees which you decorate with ornaments, this gift was hung on a less attractive tree, from which the plan of salvation was fulfilled, and victory over sin and death was added to the pile of gifts.
This season, don’t get blinded by the wrong gifts, the wrong foods, and the wrong gatherings through seasonal celebration. Many who see the extravagance practiced around this time would continue to lament that “we must put Christ back into Christmas”. However, it is impossible to put back Christ where He never was in the first place. Jesus is not the real reason for the Christmas season.
Celebrate, not just His birth, but His death and resurrection- when God showed His strength triumphant even over death, and proved that no power and no law could prevent Him from claiming His own, forever. Celebrate the sure assurance that the One who left us will return to us, and in His second coming, will perfect all things. Celebrate not just the child lying in the manger, but the boy who grew up in a little village, or the man who walked and talked in the highways of Galilee and the courts of Jerusalem.
When we hear the birth-cry of the Universe, when we look upon the empty tomb, when we shall see the heavens opened and the Son of God descending — we will say again: “We know the One who does this. We know You. Take us to Yourself.”
Jesus is not the reason for the season, He is a gift of all seasons for ONE reason – LOVE!
That, my dear readers, is enough reason to celebrate. Go head, celebrate with Him in mind, and I guarantee your “Christmas” will not be the same, because when He becomes your season for the right reason, you are never the same.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Merry Melodious Melody
It’s amazing how God keep silent about Christ Birthday and yet the Enemy of souls gave Him December 25.what a wicked Devil! For me personally, December 25 is like any other holiday. The important thing is that Christ was born I’m not interested in knowing about His birthdate
Mel well said. None of us know for sure when Christ was born. The most important thing he was born not the TIME nor the DATE of his birth but because of his birth we have the opportunity to inherit eternal life he grew up he died and he rose up from the grave .
If we obey his words that’s what matters not the time of his birth he was born for sure.
Let us celebrate not only his BIRTH but his DEATH and his RESURRECTION so can inherit eternal life then we will be able to ask all the questions and get the right answers .
We cannot do it on our own but with God’s help we can do all things through him which strengthens us
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