Focus of Christmas

Before anything else, let me greet you with "A blessed, meaningful and merry Christmas!".

I don't know about you, but for me, Christmas is the best season ever! Here in my country, the Philippines, the celebration of this marvelous season starts in September. This is the time when the morning breeze gets colder, signalling that the "spirit" of Christmas is all around.

More often than not, every year actually, we lose sight of the real focus of Christmas. 

I'm sure you've heard the familiar Christmas rhyming cliche. I'm not gonna mention it here because you already know that and because it'd be another cliche to even mention a word of it. It would be redundant.

I'll try to keep this as short as possible. Here's my first point:

Christmas is for you.

You read that right folks. Christmas is for you. Luke 2:11 NJKV says, "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."

Christ was born to you. To save you. To save you from your sins. That is why He is the Savior. Jesus was born to save you from your sins because sin is our primary problem.

If our primary problem is money, then, God would've sent a banker. If our primary problem is poverty, then God would've sent us an economist.

God sent us a Savior because we need saving. We need salvation.

Christmas is about God reaching out to man by sending His only Son to seek and save the lost.

Here's my next point:

The focus of Christmas is JESUS and we respond by worshiping Him for who He is and for what he has done.

Christmas maybe for you, but Christmas is not about you. A lot of people think that Christmas is about the food, the gifts, the parties, about what they will get. People think that Christmas is about Santa Claus, or about the carols to sing or about the tallest and the brightest Christmas trees.

But no. Christmas is about Jesus. It's all about Him. When we make Christmas all about ourselves, we are missing the point of celebrating this wondrous and miraculous event.

The appropriate response then is worship. Worship Jesus because He is the Lord and because He saved us from our sins.

I hope that what I've shared to you will help you understand the focus of this season's celebration. Again, have a blessed, meaningful and merry Christmas! :D

     

Trip to the Christmas Capital of The Philippines

Quick post. 

Later this morning, I and my friends will head out to the Christmas Capital of the Philippines, none other than the City of San Fernando, Pampanga for the Giant Lantern Festival 2012.

It was back in 2007 when I last went to San Fernando to see the ~20-feet tall lanterns made up of thousands of light bulbs operated manually by a rotating drum.

It's exciting because I get to return to the province where our family came from. Yep. I'm Kapampangan (That's someone from the province of Pampanga for thsoe who doesn't know Filipino). I may not speak the dialect fluently, but embracing the culture my family was involved in somehow gives me great pleasure.

We'll leave by 9AM later and we expect to get there at around 10:30AM. I'll be posting pictures so watch out.

I'm finishing up some tasks and will go to sleep in a bit. Until next post! :D

He's Back! For Now ...

Hey...

It's Rege...

And guess what?

I'm back to Regelation Of The Mind! :D

Isn't this fun?

On my next posts, I will tell you where I've been and what on earth have I been doing during my my 4-month blogging hiatus.

In the meantime, please know that I'm still alive and kicking. I'm doing great, except for the fact that I don't have a day job.

I'd like to say "Thank you!" to all my loyal and "chance" readers out there.

I'll keep you "posted" :D

Love and thoughts go out to you all!

GM Rege I.