Take Time This Christmas to Remember Why We Celebrate

Take Time This Christmas to Remember Why We Celebrate

Around this time of year, you see commercials, signs and billboards that say "Keep Christ in Christmas." After all, the whole reason for the season is Jesus, the Son of God, coming to earth to save the sinner - each of us - from our sins, offering the only way of salvation, and giving the greatest love story ever told. The reason He came was His love for you and me.

Unfortunately, Christmas has become so unbelievably commercialized that most of our society has forgotten this. Stores now compete to offer the best Black Friday sales on Thursday and Christmas trees are on display in August beside backpacks and back-to-school specials. Is this really how far we have strayed from the purpose of this time of celebration?

Take time this Christmas season, and all year round, to stop and remember why we celebrate. We celebrate Jesus Christ, the Creator of the universe and the Author of salvation, leaving all the glories of Heaven to come and save us from an eternity without Him. He came so that He could die for our sins at Calvary and offer eternal salvation for those who are willing to receive it. He came because He loves you and me.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 8:38-39 (NIV)