Enjoy Christmas.

Christmas. The celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. If you see this Holiday as anything other than that then you must evaluate where you are at, what you expect from your life and what will come for you after you have died. For if you see anything other than the Messiah then you will missed the message of the Gospel and Grace offered by God through Faith in who he was and what happened on the cross.

God in His soverenty laid plans from the beginning to allow us to make a choice. To allow us to be with Him eternally and to be sanctified through Jesus Christ. The Old Testiment is full of the prophecies pointing us to the coming Savior. The lives of so many are recorded for us to have wittness to the God of all creation and to His plans to defeat sin in His creation. Step by step we see His plans fullfilled all colminating in the moment of Jesus's birth.

So many today fail to see this miracle as anything more than fiction. So many have hardened hearts and want only to live their lives as they see fit because it is nice and easy. They have what they need, everything that they want so what more would be offered from God. Oh they may say that there is a God, our inharent nature knows there is something bigger than us. But their sin keeps them from accepting fully that Christ suffered and died for them and their sin.

We long as humans always something better. We work for raises so we can have more and nicer things. We want good food and play time, toys that consume our time. Hobbies that fill our need for something more or offer just an escape from the reality of our lives. We drink to relax and get drunk to party. We idolize our heros, and wish in our hearts to be more like them. We are in a constant state of movement which is never happy enough to be satisfied. This is sin. Sin is not just the things that are wicked and disgusting.

As humans however we hold to the idea of free will. We want to do things our way. We believe that we will have time to give ourselves to God and that we can just do what we want in the mean time. You can, however choose who and what are you doing things for and who are you giving the glory to? Yes you work hard and make a lot of money. Where did your ability and opportunity come from and what do you do with the extra that has been provided? Your life is good and you stand on that you made it on your own. But can't in just an instant it can turn bad? Who then do you blame and whom do you turn for help?

We have free will, to either choose to set in our heart the things of God, all the things of God, or not. We have the right to think that we did it on our own, or that we did it becasue God allowed us to do it. We can choose to be a willing participant in Gods plan or just keep believeing in ourselves. We can know that all of our lives have purpose or that in the end it meant nothing. The choice is always ours.

So back to Christmas. You have a choice to participate in the idolitry of the Holiday. The buying of exstravigant gifts, maybe beyond your means. The Celebrations that have nothing to do with the Birth and everything to do with the celebration of success and wealth. Nothing in your heart except if the gifts and clothes and stuff is good enough, not a hint of the Savior coming to earth. No thought of the possibility that acceptance of the Messiah will fullfill all of your other needs. No thought that knowing this baby and what He ultimate does on the cross for you will make all of your efforts worth something, making them for the Glory of God.

Make this Christmas a celebration of God and of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Give the gifts with the same love that God gives the gift of salvation through Jesus. Sit, reflect, and thank God for His plans for your life, the life of your children and the Life of His son. Place in your heart all things for Him and thank Him for them. Enjoy Christmas but enjoy it for the right reason, the Messiah Jesus Christ.