Merry Christmas and a Faithful New Year
As A Pastor and an everyday person, I am always so shocked at the non-sense that people place around Christmas. Some say, "don't call it Christmas, you do not want to offend Muslims or Jews." True, you don't but come one, its Christmas. Its a day, set aside by the Christian community to remember our great savior. You don't here Christian going to Guru group and saying, "don't name the holiday surrounding this particular Guru that, you don't want to offend us and others, just give it a secular name, ok." True Christmas has been a forcably colonized holiday, been hijack by the secular business world. Yes, it has also been in recent years been a time shared with other faiths, and holidays but for the Christian, it is a day to celebrate to Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ.
Moving on lets realize that Christmas is a time for the faithful of Christ to remember and celebrate the birth of the Jewish king. However, alot of non-sense has happens around Christmas, such as gift giving. It's rather a nice idea and one that should be done all year round. Meeting up with family only once a year is also non-sense because we have 50 other weeks to do that but are too lazy, busy, or simply not interrested. The biggest non-sense I see is those who attend Christmas Eve Services because they want to clean their souls for the end of the year but dont forget to keep it clean. This is sad, beacuse those who do this have such a bad understanding of Christian belief. They miss the point that a Christmas Eve service is for the faithful to enjoy and celebrate. The world has created a secular version of Christmas, why do you now decide to include GOD into your secular lives?
Growing Faith the other thing that troubles me about Christmas is New Years resolutions. Christmas eve, we stuff ourselves silly, making gluttons of ourselves but decide while drinking too much on December 1st that starting the next day January 1st to stop smoking, drinking, and doing foolishness for the rest of the entire new year. Yet, sadly, that promise turns into another new year lie.
The One Thing I Wish For You stop the yearly cycle of nonsense and begin to understand that Christmas is a time to have joy and celebrate that you have been priviledged to be able to become a CHristian in a country where you will not be killed for it. Go to church more than one time a year and begin to have a real faith in GOD. If you make a resolution this new year, it should be this, to keep the faith. So, back to being jolly.
Let me conclude by wishing you Merry CHRISTmas and a faithful new year.
