What is Christmas all about?
If you say Santa Claus and elves, you are far from the bull's- eye.
If you say goodwill and giving gifts, you are aiming for the nail, but missing its head.
If you say the baby in the straw, the angels, and the shepherds, you're partly correct. Yes, Christmas is the celebration of Jesus's birth, but that's not all.
Because if we only celebrate the baby, that would be like throwing my husband a birthday party and giving him tiny baby clothes and diapers. If we focus too much on the birth, we aren't looking past that one event to see what follows.
Christmas fills us with joy because the Savior had arrived.
Christmas fills us with hope because his life mission was to die in our place.
Christmas fills us with peace because God came to earth as a human to bring us back to him.
For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. ~Hebrews 2:17
If you don't know much more about Christmas than Santa Claus, wrapping presents, or even the baby in the manger, I pray that this is the Christmas that you will discover the deeper, truer meaning of Christmas.
May your Christmas be full of joy, peace, and hope.
Christmas fills us with peace because God came to earth as a human to bring us back to him.
For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. ~Hebrews 2:17
If you don't know much more about Christmas than Santa Claus, wrapping presents, or even the baby in the manger, I pray that this is the Christmas that you will discover the deeper, truer meaning of Christmas.
May your Christmas be full of joy, peace, and hope.
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