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
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