The Reason For The Season

As Christians we have to actively remember to keep Christ in Christmas. In recent years much effort has been made to remove Christ from the celebrations.

Carol & I were talking about how in western countries, various groups are actively working towards getting rid of Jesus in the Christmas celebration. Efforts include; no nativity scenes are allowed in Christmas displays, no mention of the Saviour’s birth in the songs played over the PA system in shopping malls etc etc. Just this morning I read that in the US, the lyrics of “ Silent Night” were completely altered to suit everyone who attended the presentation of a school play. Getting rid of Jesus is infact nothing new. Herod wanted to get rid of Jesus when he heard about His birth. However 2000 years on… Jesus is still alive & well.

I am glad that in Malaysia, we can still put up nativity scenes, have Christmas parades and go carolling in the shopping malls etc . Recently in KL, I heard carols proclaiming the birth of Jesus and I thought , “ Praise God for the privilege to do that.”

As Christians , we have to let others know why we celebrate Christmas. We also need to pass on this message to our kids so that the next generation and the next will not be influenced by the world system into believing that Christmas is only a holiday and nothing more.

And I do make a point to write CHRISTMAS and not X’MAS. To me “X’ is always the unknown factor as my math teacher once told me. For me & my family, we keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas coz HE the LORD OF LORDS , KING OF KINGS is NOT an unknown factor.

BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO ALL.