Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11)
Your Christmas cards have all been sent. Your Christmas tree has been decorated since the day after Thanksgiving. The gifts you bought are all wrapped and ready to be exchanged with family, friends, and loved ones. Your favorite holiday food has been cooked and is ready to be served to your invited guests. So, you think you have finished all you need to do. Unless you have included Jesus Christ, you have no reason to celebrate Christmas.
If you plan to celebrate Christmas without Christ, then your celebration will be hollow without any real substance. Unless you have invited Christ to be the center of your celebration, it will lack the most important thing...the honored guest. There can be no Christmas without Christ. How would you feel if you were not invited to your own birthday party? Do you think Jesus is pleased that you receive gifts from others; yet you reject the one He is offering...His gift of salvation?
Those who don't believe in Christ but use the occasion to take time off from work and to get involved in all the other Christmas traditions and festivities are actually perpetrating a fraud. They benefit from something they don't believe in.
If you are following all the Christmas traditions and customs but do not believe in CHRIST, why not make your celebration legitimate? Believe in the one whose birthday you are celebrating. There can be no legal Christmas without Christ. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Then go on and enjoy Christmas with Christ.
Rev. Margaret Minnicks
