Do you celebrate Christmas? Luke 2: 8-20
A lot of people celebrate Christmas and several others don’t. Some people have other things to celebrate on the same date every year. All the same December 25th is a day of celebration all over the world. Some don’t even bother what is celebrated. They just celebrate. Very few people know what and why they celebrate during Christmas. So do you celebrate Christmas?
Luke 2:9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Luke’s account of the birth of Christ indicates that shepherds were watching over their flock in the field. This made many scholars argue that Christ was not born in December which happens to be cold. Nobody would stay in the cold to watch over the flock. Arguments on dates, time and season have their own place in getting the facts right. The fact still remains anyway that Christ was born on a date, winter or summer and this for the whole world.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
To me Christmas is for both saints and sinners because saints are actually sinners turned around. How would anyone know whether the sinner, drunkard and whore of today would not be the saints of tomorrow?
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Moreover, as someone observed, strangers are just friend we never met before. So keeping a very positive attitude we feel that everybody should celebrate Christmas.
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
All the same there should be moderate celebration, not the point of people destroying themselves. Apparently this is the sad aspect of Christmas celebration and in fact many other kinds of celebrations. People just destroy themselves, through excessive drinking and fighting.
Proverbs 23:29
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
From the first Christmas, many people have been involved in celebrating Christmas, shepherds, angels, kings and commoners. At least some pay lip service to the just born king. Even when he was full grown there still those calling him Lord without doing his bids.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
So those who know what they are celebrating should do it with a purpose and remind others what celebrating Christmas is all about. God bless you
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