Merry Christmas!

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I admit, I'm not a lot of fun this time of year.

Christmas is not very Christian, so it doesn't do much for me.

We have a lot of nice traditions and spend good times together and there are some positive aspects to it, but Christmas in the USA today just doesn't seem right to me.

December 25th is not when Christ was born....It was most likely in the spring when sheep were giving birth (that is the time shepherds would stay in the fields keeping watch over their sheep by night)  The church basicly usurped a pagan festival and tried to make it "christian".  So you kind of lose me right there.

Next is the way we cling to dates, traditions, objects and relics in the "church".  Man was never meant to cling to these things, but to cling to God's promises by faith.

Would Christ want us to focus on celebrating His birth other than clinging to the truth that God has sent His Son into this world to be the Lamb of God that takes away our sin?  Cling to the promise of God.  Our Salvation has come!

Trees, presents, Santa, parties....I'm not saying that these things are not ok to enjoy and have fun with, I'm just saying they have nothing to do with what happened some 2,000 years ago (and probably in the spring).

Please don't cling to these things.  Cling to the work that God has done this Christmas:

Jhn 3:13	"No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
Jhn 3:14	"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
Jhn 3:15	so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.
Jhn 3:16	"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Jhn 3:17	"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
Jhn 3:18	"He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Jhn 3:19	"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
Jhn 3:20	"For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
Jhn 3:21	"But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." The question is this:  Have you received the gift of eternal life by the forgiveness of sins Christ's death purchased?  Is the Savior the Lord of your life? Or will you make another way? Eph 2:8   For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, {it is} the gift of God; Eph 2:9   not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Eph 2:10   For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. There is no other way to heaven.  There is no true peace in this life nor the next unless you have believed the promise of GOd.  You and I are sinners.  We can not be good enough to get to heaven.  Romans says the wages of sin is death.  Christ died my death and rose again and crushed death for all who will believe in Him. That is why I am having a MERRY CHRISTMAS!