Christ Was Born – Reason Enough To Celebrate

I am so glad I am able to write another blog. I have no excuse for this long absence other than I got caught up in other things so that typing became my least favorite past time. The past few days have been exhausting. Could it be age related? I hope not. Lol! So please bear with me. Here we are, again in that season when we give gifts and eat too much of all the things we ought to eat in little quantities – Its Christmas when we celebrate the birth of Christ. There is often a lot of argument about the actual birth day of Christ so much so that some people miss out on the joy of the season because they lose their Christmas joy from arguing about the accuracy of the date. This Christmas, I would like to remind every such person that whether or not 25^th of December is the accurate day, we choose to celebrate His birth on that day. Who cares about the accuracy of the date? We care that He was born so let us just celebrate His birth since we know, without a shadow of doubt, that He was and that is the reason for us having hope. Moreover, any day one chooses, to celebrate their birth is their business; after all, we just celebrate the fact that we were born. Too many arguments about Him already; please don’t add this trivial matter of date.

 

2 Timothy 2: 23 “Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish ignorant arguments that only start fights.”

When I was much younger, Christmas season was never one of my best. I felt the weather in my Country was at its worst in this season and I worked too hard helping my mum with the cooking and washing up. As an adult and a believer in today’s world where it would appear that there is full onslaught from hell against Christianity, it has become very important to me that Christmas is celebrated. I now love to see houses decorated, though mine isn’t for obvious reasons (laziness), and feel all the joy in the atmosphere with people just looking forward to visiting one another, giving gifts and showing the love of God. It is now to me, another way of ensuring that our faith and its origin are not forgotten. A lot of Christians don’t even remember what Christianity is all about anymore. It is fast deeming in our memory. It is no longer really taught in schools which makes it expedient to talk about its origin. I don’t care how funny several mangers or even Christmas trees I see may look, I am just excited that you have one anyway so that some other person who has never heard about it can ask a question and you can then explain to them about the birth of Christ because you love them enough to explain.

Galatians 4: 4 - 6 “God sent His son born of son, born of a woman, subject to law. God sent Him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that He could adopt us as his own very children. And because we are His children, God has sent the Spirit of His son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, Abba Father. Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.”

Now more than ever before Christmas has become very important. In a world where all sorts of people are celebrated for every evil thing; believers are left with no option but to greatly celebrate and make a lot of noise about everything concerning our faith. From the bible account, the celebration was loud even on the actual day He was born; both in heaven and on earth it was announced with a lot of noise. It is time to borrow a leaf from the bible account of the announcement of the birth of our Saviour. God is not coming down to earth to do it, He will do it through us so this is another opportunity to celebrate let us take advantage of it. No one who was once a slave and is now enjoying liberty should be silent at this time when the birth of the deliverer is celebrated. The unique thing about this deliverer is that He has the power, still desires to and is still delivering slaves from that same form of slavery today. Who knows, because of your announcement, somebody may get saved.

Luke 2: 13 “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God”

Have you noticed that people are no longer subtle? Everyone fights to be loud so they can attract attention so that the subtle ones are drowned. We may not want to be loud all the time but when the season permits, like at Christmas, I believe it is time to go loud and also loudly proclaim the reason for the season. Even if ordinarily, we often look sad and defeated, this is one Christmas when we must make a decision to rejoice. I know that there are people who have very good reasons to be sad because of the recent turn of events in their lives; but I really would like to encourage you to rejoice. We don’t often rejoice because of the turn of events in our lives but because we have a hope and we know that He who has asked that we rejoice is always is working to give us even more reasons to do so. Today however, rejoice for Christ who came that He destroy every work of satan that we may have joy and that our joy may be full.