With Thanksgiving and Black Friday behind us, we are now in countdown mode for the much anticipated birthday celebration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

You can hear Christmas carols in their various forms on many “non-Christian” radio stations as well as those with strictly “Christian/Gospel” music formats.  Television commercials show ads with crazed shoppers trying to get the “best” deals and movies about Christmas with family.  Tall pine and fir trees are decorated with shiny colorful ornaments, and poinsettias in red and off-white line department stores. The smell of gingerbread cookies, fruit pies, and all types of danish tickle your nose as you walk through the mall, supermarket and neighborhood bakery.

While it is nice to drink egg nog and wash down those butter cookies at the company holiday party, let’s not become so “politically correct” that we forget the date that we are anticipating, December 25th, the day that the one who would “save” us from a burning hell was born.  Isaiah 9:6 tells us; “For  unto  us a  child  is  born ,  unto  us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

Remember that our Savior's name is the first part of the holiday called “Christmas,” and without Him the holiday wouldn’t exist.  The REASON BEHIND THE SEASON IS CHRIST. So go ahead and mail those cards, buy a gift for the special people in your lives, bake and enjoy those yearly seasonal favorites, but do take some time out and remember to give “HIM” the honor, glory and praise He so rightly deserves.  As the Christmas Carol Adeste Fideles (better known as “O Come All Ye Faithful”) states in the chorus; “…o come let us adore him, o come let us adore him, o come let us adore him, Christ The Lord!"

Blessed Christmas to all!