Jesus is the Reason for the Season…Is He, Really??


Whoa! This is it!!! IT’S CHRISTMAS! IT’S CHRISTMAS!!! *giddy jump*

I woke up this morning excited to do things Christmas-related around the house. The kids slept late last night so I am sure (or I am hoping) I’d have more time to do all the things I want to before they wake up.

– Finalize the Christmas decorations (To this Dennis would comment: “Oh, is it not final yet??”)

– Fix the menu for the dinner parties

We’ve already fixed our calendar so that’s one item off the list (Yay!)

…Oh, wait! There’s one group we NEED to add and invite! Okay so…

*edit*

– Finalize our December calendar

– Finalize the list of activities we would be doing with the kids

– Finalize fixing the stuff we want to give away

– Finalize the gifts we want to give

Wow. Do I have a lot of things to “finalize”!

I wonder if Christmas years ago were this busy. Since when did the Christmas season have to be so full of activities, anyway? I wonder if this is how God intended for us to celebrate Christmas.

Is this really how YOU designed this season to be, Lord?

Maybe God just wants us to celebrate this season to remind us of the one thing He did that finalized everything else we would need in this world:

God sent His Son Jesus into the world to save us. And because of the life we have in Jesus, we are forgiven, we are healed, we are restored, we can experience life to the full, we are brought back in relationship with our Heavenly Father …. Because of the life we have in His Son, we can have everything we would need in this life and more.

Because of the life we have in His Son, we have a reason to celebrate.

And that is really the only reason we celebrate. Everything else we are doing should fall under this reason.

Since when did the Christmas season have to be so full of activities? Since when did it start to become so “expensive”? Since when did people have to rush and stress over many things every time “ber” season came?

I guess since we forgot that there is only ONE reason— the ONE person who finalized it all for us.