Between all the dashing and madness that usually means Christmas we have to ask ourselves : do we still have time to see what si real and do we have the ability to distinguish the truth that lies beyond all that is immediate in our reality.
We have to denouce our hypocrisy and ask ourselves: if it was our birthday how would we feel if all those that claim to love us would blatanly ignore us and instead gather toghether to celebrate a lie , without mentioning a word of us or giving a thought about us. If we love or LORD Jesus Christ , how can we agree to celebrate a lie, how can we agree with all the eating and drinking and shopping and not see these gloutonous things for what they really are. They are designed to keep us away from the LORD, to make us stray from His path , to make us forget His Word and to be that which Hie does not want us to be. The signicance of Christmas is this and only this: the celebration of the birth of our LORD Jesus Christ, the celebration of the embodiment of the Word , which came into this world to redeem us. And how can we celebrate the borth of Christ? Through being with Him. Other than our love , our true ,whole,honest love what else can we give to Him , Him which is the King of kings and the LORD of lords. Him, unto which everything was made, by whom everything was made, which has ownership over everything, what else can you give. If we are trully to celebrate Christmas , we can only rejoice in the great love our God the Father showed us, by sending His on,y begotten son, into this world , not to judge it but to redeem it. And we should rejoice for the great act of even greater love which was made by our LORD Jesus Christ, which made Himself flesh and dwelt among us, to bring unto us His light , which shines in darkness to defeat it, , which graces us with truth, unbinds us from death and sin and gives us a way to be children of our Heavenly Father , so that thrugh Him we can be redeemed.
Oh our Heavenly Father , thank you for send us your Son so that we can be released from the guilt of our sins and so that the death penalty for those sins would not be suffered by us. But You, our LORD, or glorious, wonderfull, powerfull, mercifull and extraordinary LORD Jesus Christ, You bore the death for our sins and thus rescued us from an eternity without You and The Father. God, thank you for showing us such great love that we, who are small , wretched and covered in the darkness of guilt , might be uplifted and made clean so we can find our redemption and live with You and God the Father in the heavenly Jerusalem, in the kingdom that You prepared for us from the foundation of the world. Thank Your LORD for sending forth Your Holy Spirit , so that through Him we have a constant testimony of You; our LORD, Your Holy Spirit enlightens us and gives us the power to defeat our shortcomings and evils. Thank your for everything our LORD , God Jesus Christ .
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