Christmas Musings
by Anah Galathea
Christmas is a time of revelry or festivities, a time of more love, gifts, food, friends, family, and symbols associated with the season: snowman, parol, Christmas tree, etc.
But more than anything else, Christmas is a time of deep inward rejoicing that once in earth’s history, a Savior was born to save the world.
To some people, the true meaning of Christmas is a taboo subject. But the revelry remains with worldly partying, drinking, or gorging foods. On other homes, family feasting, gift-giving, and other gimmicks take place.
I once remember an email sent to me where Jesus was supposedly talking. He felt like an uninvited guest on His own birthday. While the people are partying on their Christmas event, Jesus was looking on unobtrusive in a corner.
How would we feel if we attend our own birthday but is completely ignored? How would you feel if nobody seems to care that it’s your party and it’s your day? Maybe, you would quietly slip out of the house and be alone.
The sad fact also about Christmas is somebody long ago had invented the concept of “Santa Claus.” It has taken away the focus from the Savior of the world and turned to the pagan symbol of a man who supposedly rewards the good doers and which laughs something like, ho-ho-ho.
Another sad fact is that Christmas has become an “X-mas.” This is a form of blasphemy where the one true living God is recognized as an “X” or an unknown value in algebra, or something that means zero or nothing.
The world is trying and trying to disorient people from the real meaning of Christmas. Commercialization has become too much that people tend to see the material gifts more than the Giver (God), the celebration more than the Celebrator (Jesus), the spirit of love more than the Lover (Holy Spirit).
Let us re-arrange our perspective and meditate on the true meaning of Christmas. More than anything else, Christmas is all about Jesus. The deepest truth is, For God so loved the world, He sent us a Savior which made the first Christmas day.
