Merry Christmas!
Ooops….Happy Winter or Merry Holiday??

A couple thousand years ago in the town of Bethlehem, several miles south of Jerusalem, a child was born. Nothing so fancy about that, in fact, the conditions of birth were not what you would expect of a king. But, it happened. God became flesh, (John 1:1, 14), and was born of Mary by the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ was among us. He brought a message that is still being heard throughout the world. If anyone had some ‘Good News’, it was Jesus, and many people are still listening and turning their lives over to Him. Take a look at Ephesians 2:8-9 for a brief description of God’s description of the ‘How to get to Heaven’.

In His adult life for just a couple years He was able to spread the word of God and His way to have eternal life with Him in heaven. There have been educated Bible scholars who have said the way to heaven was too simple. This would account for the many religions that include much ritual in their services.

In any event, no matter where you are, there is something happening out there. All of a sudden saying, ‘Merry Christmas’, has become a no, no. There are over 110 million adult voters in this country that say they are Christians. Take that and add another 100 million or so children that also say they are Christians, and we come up with a bunch of people in this country who are now being told not to say ‘Merry Christmas’. Schools are forbidding Christmas (oops…there I go again), let’s see, winter programs that have any religious meaning attached to them.

Here’s an interesting thought I had back in September when I first starting hearing about this ‘no Christmas’ move again. My thought when I heard this bit of garbage was, the merchants are not going to like this. It’s going to hamper their sales. As it is happening, the merchants across the country to one degree or another are going along with this ‘no Christmas’ move. Guess what! They are walking themselves right into disaster. Just recently, I watched the news as they were showing how the stores were already having sales because people weren’t coming to shop. Perhaps they didn’t realize taking Jesus out of the season would take the spirit out of the people. In addition, they may also have forgotten that Jesus is the reason for the season.

The 200+ million of us in this country who want to celebrate the birth of Jesus need to step forward. It has always been that we didn’t want to offend anyone. We still don’t want to offend anyone, but now there’s millions of us who are being offended. We need to make our stand known in our schools, and let the entire country know, we want to put Jesus back where He belongs during the Christmas season.
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!