Edward
2024 Supporter
Do you Brothers and Sisters have the Christmas spirit yet? I do not yet this year. Usually I wind up getting in the Christmas spirit maybe a week or so before Christmas, but this year I haven't. I've never really been huge into the whole worldly materialistic thing about which has seemingly become what Christmas is all about.
I know how Jesus feels about the Christmas season. It matters not to Him that we don't have His birth-date right. It's still a day that we take to celebrate His birth on earth.This might sound a bit cliche, but Jesus feels the Christmas season is all about the kids. But not as the world means it when they say that but rather a season in which to teach our kids all about Jesus and His birth and what that that means for us. It IS a day to celebrate and be light hearted and joyful. For we have hope now!
But that ol' Christmas spirit and light heartedness has not came to me this year. I drive around and look at the world and the shape it is in and feel somber. I find myself watching the traffic and people and can't help but have the thought that the majority of those I see will be condemned. I wonder how many I see that are saved and Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I suppose that I should have the Christmas spirit because I have the assurance of salvation but my heart goes out to these people of the world and I feel great compassion for them. I pray for strangers I see at times, asking God to bless them and to forgive them for their sins on the chance that they have not. So perhaps, at least their soul may be safe from condemnation.
I don't want to sound like a downer but I feel for our people and it seems to have overshadowed what should be the light heartedness of the season.
God bless us all.
I know how Jesus feels about the Christmas season. It matters not to Him that we don't have His birth-date right. It's still a day that we take to celebrate His birth on earth.This might sound a bit cliche, but Jesus feels the Christmas season is all about the kids. But not as the world means it when they say that but rather a season in which to teach our kids all about Jesus and His birth and what that that means for us. It IS a day to celebrate and be light hearted and joyful. For we have hope now!
But that ol' Christmas spirit and light heartedness has not came to me this year. I drive around and look at the world and the shape it is in and feel somber. I find myself watching the traffic and people and can't help but have the thought that the majority of those I see will be condemned. I wonder how many I see that are saved and Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I suppose that I should have the Christmas spirit because I have the assurance of salvation but my heart goes out to these people of the world and I feel great compassion for them. I pray for strangers I see at times, asking God to bless them and to forgive them for their sins on the chance that they have not. So perhaps, at least their soul may be safe from condemnation.
I don't want to sound like a downer but I feel for our people and it seems to have overshadowed what should be the light heartedness of the season.
God bless us all.