The Greatest Gift

We have arrived at the season where many gather together to for Christmas.

There is the pagan tradition, the stories based without context on the Gospels, and the world’s version. A tradition where people become stressed as they try to meet earthly expectations and forget the true reason for the season.

A time when families come together not in the true spirit of unity but the external tradition of the Christmas get together. Then in the stress of the preparation comes to the surfaces of unsolved family issues.

But there’s a the true message of Christmas:

“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel” (God with us) -Isaiah 7:14 ESV

Jesus is the greatest gift we’ve ever had, yet many ignore Him.

Christmas is a truly wonderful celebration of our first messenger. For approximately 36 years this messenger walked the earth. And He still is our greatest messenger throughout the world.

To embrace the true beauty of the celebration of Jesus’s birth we must recognize that we must come away from the mess of what the world and family expects of us. We must then embrace the message of Christmas in its true form. The message is a sign given to us by God and conceived by supernatural means.

Many will conceive their preoccupied pagan traditions of Christmas. Doing what the world and families expect of them. That I have no control of, but I choose to focus on the true meaning of Christmas -The greatest Gift ever given -The reason for the season.

Isn’t it about time we leave the Mess of pagan beliefs and embrace the true meaning of Christmas, His birth, and what it means in our lives?