I woke up this morning and thoughts of dear old Santa Claus, aka Chris Cringle, came to mind. Movies such as Miracle on Thirty Fourth Street and others are played every year during the Christmas season. Songs about a "White Christmas" and "Blue Christmas" are called Christmas music. Hogwash!!!!
It's all about money. Retailers do the majority of their business during the period from the day after Thanksgiving to into January. Now they want to distance themselves from the Christmas Holidays to Happy Holidays and make sure any reference to Christ is thoroughly removed. Then the Muslims can share in the festivities, so can the Jews, the Budhist, and even the Scientologists.
Well folks, Christmas is the ceremonial celebration of Jesus Christs' birth, my Lord and and Savior. Point blank. We do not do Christmas in our home in the traditional sense, we do it in the true sense, the honoring of Christ. Anything else is nothing but an abomination to the Lord. Jesus went to the cross for our sins and our sicknesses. He bore every sin known to man and every sickness that will ever exist. Plus He was beaten to worse than humanly possible to endure for our healings.
When He rose from the tomb, He was unrecognizable as a human. He walked right passed His own mother and she failed to recognize Him. This is not a fairy tale, this real, this is big time.
So, Ok, give your kids a few gifts; but also make sure that your whole family pays honor to Jesus for taking the heat for our sins------and what terrible heat it was. Not one of us has the guts to even think about doing it.
If you have raised your kids correctly, you have already taught them as to the real Christmas and educated them on Christian living and worshiping God through His Son, Jesus Christ. If you haven't done that, you simply haven't raised them correctly. I am only addressing people of the Christian faith, other religions are going to have their own issues to deal with.
So folks, it's time to take an inventory of where we stand on the matter of the real Christmas, and the real Christ. If your child, who can make a conscious decision, was to (and God forbid) die today, where would your child spend eternity? If you do know, you have done your job. If you don't know, you haven't. Either way, you are responsible.
Don't get my started on the Easter bunny!
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