A New Look at Christmas!

Every Christmas season you hear it, "Keep Christ in Christmas", "Jesus is the Reason for the Season."  I'm not disagreeing.  I love those sayings.  I delight in this seasonal celebration of the birth of our Savior.  I watch the holiday movies with the kids.  I fill the house with decorations.  I spend hours at the piano practicing Christmas songs - (Why do Christmas carols have so many accidentals?)  I bake cookies and make candy.  I enjoy the season so much, but it breaks my heart to see the world's celebration of a season that has little meaning beyond gifts, toys, and food.  This is the time to celebrate the grace of God that was delivered to us and the awesome way God chose to send it.

I just love listening to the radio with all of the Christmas music.  However, listening to secular artists singing Christmas carols leaves me questioning.  How can they sing about this miraculous birth, this arrival of the Savior, not change their lives?  Some of us have grown too familiar with the words, we fail to see the meaning. 

Joy to the world!  The Lord is come:

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare Him room,

How can people hear this every year and not grasp the message.  Why do they not prepare room for Him in their hearts.  The song is clear; the Saviour has come!  Oh that they would receive Him. 

As we hurry about the malls buying gifts and we race through the store to collect the ingredients for our Holiday feasts, the music flows through the speakers telling of the Saviour who has come.  Still, the faces of the people show that they still are searching and not finding Him.  They are still empty and don't know why.  Oh, that this time of year we would each use this blessed Holiday season to share His gift of love with the people around us.  Yes, Jesus is the Reason for the Season, but have you ever stopped to consider that Jesus is the Season, but You are the Reason!  You are the reason that He came to earth.  You are the reason He came as a helpless baby.  He came as a man so that He would know the struggles you face and the heartbreaks you know.  He came to live among us so that He could understand us better.  And he came to die so that we wouldn't have to.  Yes, You are the Reason for this Season!  Won't you share that Christmas message with someone else and give them a real reason to celebrate this Christmas.

Jesus is the Season, but You are the Reason!