Merry Christmas

Here’s hoping you and your family the happiest and blessed Christmas ever. As you celebrate this Christmas we realize that we have Christmas to celebrate the memory of the birth of Christ. We don’t know which day that Jesus was actually born but this is the day that we have come to observe it.

Let us remember the reason for the season is the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His birth is the manifestation of God’s love for us. He came to bring light to a dark world. The Good News (the Gospel) is that God is so in love with us that he gave His Son to us. This Good News is the main point behind the Bible. All you need to do to receive this Good News is believe it. Here’s how it works:

1. You like everybody else on earth, have made mistakes. To use a religious word, you’ve sinned. All have come short of the Glory of God. We are all sinners.
2. Your mistakes (sins) make it impossible for you to know God all by yourself. God is perfect and good in every respect, and sinful people can’t even be in the presence of so much goodness. It doesn’t matter if your mistakes were little ones or big ugly ones – it’s enough to separate you from God.
3. God loves you, despite your mistakes, and wants to have a relationship with you. God came up with a solution to this sin problem – he sent his son Jesus to suffer the penalty that your mistakes deserve. Jesus wrapped himself in flesh and took your mistakes upon himself so that you can be perfect in God’s eyes. After committing this act of sacrifice Jesus was raised from the dead and acts as a go-between for you and God.
4. By simply acknowledging your sins and believing in God’s love, and Jesus’ sacrifice you can enter a relationship with God. That means that your mistakes are washed away and you’re invited to live a new, transformed life – a life that’s based on something more meaningful than the hustles and bustles of this world

That’s the Good News: that there’s more to life than what you see, and you can be a part of it – through Jesus. If that sounds like something you want to do, all you need to do is make the decision to believe and act upon your beliefs.

Christmas, without the specter of the cross, without the awareness that this baby was born to die for mankind’s sin, is just another day off.

And as you celebrate Christmas remember that Jesus came to bring us back to God. Hope you enjoy the day with your family and remember to keep Christ in Christmas.