The atmosphere is fully charged and melodious tones fill the air.
Everyone wears a joyful heart and a cheerful face, and seems to be lost in the
state of ecstasy, but there is a question to be asked: what is the rationale
behind all the unleashing sonorous sounds, budgeting, hasting motions and busy
engagements?
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under the heaven” (Ecclesiastics 3:1). Indeed, every creature of God is a
product of time and season. There is time to be born and time to die. There is
time to plant and time to harvest. There is time to be joyful and time to be
sad; a time to laugh and a time to weep. There is time to gather and another
time for scattering. God has made all things beautiful according to His own
timing. The entire book of Ecclesiastics chapter three, speaks a great deal
about this reality.
The Sun knows when to take charge as well as the Moon and
the Stars. The different plants know when to produce their flowers as well as
their fruits. There is the day-light and there is the night. There is the wet
season and the dry season. In Genesis chapter one, God brought order to the
scheme of things.
In this vein, it is paramount to understand clearly the
season we are into. The Christmas period is a joyful season which has been
grossly abused, due to the eroded knowledge of its purpose. Christmas is not
met for mere visitations, eating, drinking, and exchanging greeting cards and
gifts. These may be part of it, but there is more to it.
Christmas is not the
time for illicit sexual relations and experiences, it is far from the time for
being drunk with wine, it is not necessary to steal, cheap or commit havocs
just to acquire material things for the celebration. All these constitute
nuisance and make caricature of what ought to be a moment of Divine Visitations
and Holy Worship.
Jesus Christ is the
reason for the season! Therefore, anything that He would not do will simply
defile the moment when done by His acclaimed fans. The greatest thing that
happened to mankind is Salvation, which began with the birth of Jesus. Matthew
1:21 says He would save the world from sin. He testified Himself too in John
10:10 that, He had come to give us life abundantly. He came to destroy the
works of Satan (1 John 3:8); to put an end to demonic oppressions, possessions
and afflictions. He came to curse the root of sin, sickness and sorrow on the
earth; to liberate us from the clutches of darkness and illuminating our path
for progress and victory. These should be our focus every Christmas season.
The advent (of Jesus) is the best time to take retrospective
looks at our lives in general and our walks with God in specific. This should
be a good period for massive evangelical and revival outreaches, drawing men to
the cross (the place of redemption and salvation). We have to create more rooms
for Jesus in our hearts and help others to do same. It is the time to be the
hands to the handless, hope to the hopeless, sight to the blind, feet to the
lame, joy to the sorrowful and heartbroken, and putting lasting smiles on the
faces of the people of the earth.
Friend; Christmas is a season of confession of sin,
repentance, turning to Jesus from idols and dead works, mortification of the
flesh for the elevation of the Spirit rule over our lives, replicating the
things He did when He took up the nature of the flesh, as ambassadors. Anything
contrary to this is a wrong way to celebrate Christmas. We are ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians
5:20) and this is a good time to shine forth the Light of God in our lives.
Remain joyful, celebrate Salvation to mankind and be grateful or thankful to
God. Merry Christmas and Happy New-Year! JESUS
IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!
