NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN CHRISTMAS!

I know this may come as a shock for some, but Christmas is a real difficult time for some folk. You may or may not celebrate the holiday as the birthday of Jesus or you may just celebrate it as a national or family holiday, or you may even choose not to celebrate it at all.

Whatever your choice, that's OK, we don't find it in the bible, but the bible give us the liberty to celebrate things other than just the things mentioned there. So, you may proclaim, "I don't believe in Christmas", and that's OK, because the important thing is that you believe in Jesus.

A friend sends me the following little story that makes an important point. "It seems that there was a woman who was out Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys & everything else imaginable, and after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to the elevator with her two kids.

Finally, the doors opened to an already crowded elevator. She pushed her way into the car and dragged her two kids in with her and all the bags of stuff.  When the doors closed, she couldn't take it anymore and said, "Whoever started this whole Christmas thing should be found and hanged."

From the back of the elevator everyone heard a quiet, calm voice respond, "Don't worry.  We already crucified Him."  For the rest of the trip down it was so quiet you could hear only the breathing of the people in the elevator.

You see, whether you believe in Christmas or not is really not important, but if we don't understand the sacrifice that was made on our behalf we believe in nothing. Paul reminds us: "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:8 (NIV)

So for me I really don't believe in Christmas as a bible based holiday, but I do believe in the one that the holiday remembers. His birth was indeed miraculous, if it weren’t, it wouldn't have been recorded the way it was. But it is his death, burial and resurrection that saves us! Yes, our sins crucified him and he loves us anyway! Now, that's what we really need to remember.