THE REAL REASON
...
FOR CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS
Christmas is
celebrated once a year all over the world. It
is not celebrated by Christians only. Non-Christians,
people of other faiths, even people of no faith at all, also
celebrate it. In some countries, it is celebrated nationally.
In some others, it is celebrated as a national holiday. It
is quite correct to describe Christmas as an inter-faith,
international celebration.
But
while it has become a worldwide, universal celebration, there
are many all over the world who neither know its real reason
nor the one in whose name it is celebrated.
This article
seeks to explain the real reason behind the event
and to help point to the one whose birth more than two thousand
years ago is the real reason for the celebration.
There is
indeed a real reason behind Christmas celebration. The Scripture
is trite in this regard.
First ~ Christmas
is a time of real good news. When the angel first brokered the
news of the birth which has come to
be celebrated as
Christmas, he described it as good news (Lk. 2:10-12). According
to him, the good
news was that a Saviour was born to the world (Lk. 2:10-12).
The Saviour’s
birth which we now celebrate as Christmas is good news indeed
(Lk. 2:10-12). Christmas is therefore a day of good news, that
the world
has one who is her Saviour (Lk. 2:10-12). Therefore, as we
celebrate Christmas, we must never forget the good news behind
the celebration.
Second ~
Christmas is a time when God fulfilled His promise to
send the Messiah to
redeem the world. This promise is
stated in several
ways in the Scripture (see Gen. 3:15; Is. 7:14; Is. 9:6-7). According
to the Scripture, the birth of Jesus which the world celebrates
as Christmas actually fulfils a messianic promise that God had
made (see Matt. 1:22-23). As we celebrate Christmas all over
the nations
today,
we should remember that we are actually celebrating the fulfillment
of God’s messianic promise. In other words, we are really
celebrating the arrival of the world’s promised Messiah
more than two thousand years ago. This means that Christmas is
nothing
but a
messianic celebration.
The messiah is already available. To lose sight of this in our
Christmas celebrations is to celebrate meaninglessly.
...NEXT ~ Third REAL reason
for celebrating Christmas!
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