As soon as the Thanksgiving holiday was over this year, people scrambled to get their holiday decorations up around their home. The holiday tree and lights up, Santa Claus and the reindeer decorations, and the stockings hung by the chimney, with the utmost care.

As I have observed people, the last few weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday, hustling and bustling through the shopping malls, buying gifts for their friends and loved ones, I realized that people are not even thinking about the real reason of this season. For most, I don’t think it ever crosses their minds the real reason why. How did this season become just a ‘Holi’ day? What happened to the real reason we celebrate this time of the year in the first place? Hasn’t this season been a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ? Isn’t it supposed to be, the Christmas season? Now it’s been reduced down to a government approved, time away from work day, for the nation called, the Happy Holiday.

“What! A Holiday is an approved government national day off?”

If the government says, this holiday season (December 25th), is just an approved day off from work, what is so special about that? Isn’t this what weekends are for? Don’t we already have Saturdays and Sundays weekly, and for some, two days off during the week? Why go through the trouble of spending money every year this season, if it is just a normal day off (according to the government term and standards of the word holiday)? Think about it!

“We’ve missed the mark!”

The real reason for the Christmas season was not meant to stress people out, by the monetary demands of what this time of year brings. Almost every year for the last ten years, I have read in the news, parents getting into fights at retail stores over toys they want to buy for their kids. Really? Why get in to a brawl for a Tickle Me Elmo, Xbox, Playstation, or whatever is the popular toy for the year? This year, I read of a parent getting arrested for assaulting another parent over an item at a store. Seriously? Where is the ‘happy’ in the happy holidays in that? To be truthful, this season is really a retail marketing scam to stimulate people to buy retail goods. I understand that we need to stimulate the economy, but the holiday seasons, have become a big retail marketing scheme. The scheme gets bigger and bigger every year. The sad part is we buy into it!

“This season for most, is a retail holiday. A reason to go shopping for material things, because it’s fun…”

I don’t want to be, and not trying to be a holiday mood killer here. I know of many people who absolutely love this retail holiday, and they go all out, year after year, with gifts and decorations. I get it! It’s become a fun and eventful season. A reason to be with family and friends, and gather for the sake of fun this season brings for most people. All I want to point out is this…the real reason of the season is not about the materialistic and superficial things we see during the holidays. Many people have completely missed the mark of the real meaning of this time of year.

“The true meaning of Christmas”

This season, it is about acknowledging Jesus Christ. A special time set aside to acknowledge who he is. I guess we should be acknowledging Jesus Christ every day, but the Christmas season, is supposed to be a special season set aside just for Him. It is about acknowledging God, and thanking him for giving all of us, the ultimate gift we can ever receive – His one and only son. Wasn’t this season, once called ‘Christmas?’

“God and Jesus, are banned from our country?”

I have noticed in the last 7 years, the focus has been to remove anything that had God’s name in it. People petitioned to remove God in the phrase “One Nation under God”, remove God and his teachings from schools, from our workplaces…from everything! The Christmas yearly tradition started out many centuries ago, as a time to give thanks to God. Now, the name of God, or Jesus Christ, has become illegal terms in today’s world. It is not appropriate to say “Merry Christmas” anymore. People want to remove the focus away from God’s word, His son Jesus and to promote that believing in Jesus, is not the way. Why is this? Wasn’t this world founded by God? Wasn’t this country founded by Biblical principals? Wasn’t this season originally a tradition to celebrate Christmas? Isn’t this season supposed to be a time to acknowledge Jesus Christ?

“It will always be about Jesus Christ!”

It is sobering to realize this truth just recently. It is pretty sad to me that we’ve all ignored, or have lost focus of the true meaning of this season. It is about Jesus. It’s always been about him. When we get together with our families on the eve, or on Christmas day, go ahead and give your gifts to each other, but remember to give thanks to God. He is who gives us the blessings. He is the one who provides us with the things we do have. He is the creator of heaven and earth. He is the one who created all of us, and the one who gave us His son – Jesus Christ.

So if, you still don’t know the real reason for the season, I want to tell you – it will always be about Jesus Christ! Whether you believe in Him or not! My prayer for you, if you do not believe in God, or in Jesus Christ, is that you will get to know and follow Him. Jesus Christ and living life by following him will not cost you a dollar. What he offers is absolutely free! It will cost you to give up living in your sins. If you are ready to do just that, then pray to Jesus. Ask Him for help, He will answer you. Merry Christmas to you and God bless you!

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