Christmas.

Here I am at work humming "Winter Wonderland" to myself and wondering where all this holiday spirit comes from. Oh I know! Paganism.

I wonder how we should celebrate the birth of the Messiah. Remembering God's faithfulness? Awaiting God's promises? Praying and fasting and remaining faithful?

Perhaps this baby Jesus business has no pertinence to the Son of God, Holy Lamb, Faithful Witness we see in Revelations. Perhaps this is an insult that we celebrate his infant form yet we do not exalt him as the Lord with eyes like fire, who will come with a sword out of his mouth, to bathe his garments in the blood of his enemies and finally seek recompense from the nations.

It's certainly a mood buster and will dampen the holiday spirit. But maybe that spirit isn't the Holy Spirit's prompting. Maybe its a spirit of delusion and one of the spirits of the air, seeking to deceive the nations. But never mind that and let's go sing Jingle Bells now.

Yet in all respects, the birth of the Messiah is an event that had long been waited for. We should rejoice in knowing that the Messiah had come to the Israelites, finally, the promised seed of Adam who brings a new covenant in His blood so that all nations may be blessed (fulfilling the promise through Abraham). Let us rejoice, yet let us not be conformed to the patterns of this world. If everybody, though still died in their trespasses and without the Holy Spirit, can celebrate Christmas, maybe its something that isn't so biblical nor something we should share in together.

In thinking over Christ, not everyone rejoices over Him. In Egypt, when the Jews were delivered by the blood of the Lamb, all the Egyptians wailed over the deaths of their firstborn. In Jerusalem, when Christ was delivered and the blood of the Lamb was spilled, what does this mean to the nations? Certainly not a Christmas feeling. Perhaps we are only deceiving the nations and losing our saltiness and our place as a light to this world.

Maybe now isn't the best time to give gifts to our children and teach them about Santa Claus. Maybe we should continue in sobriety, fasting and humbling ourselves before the TRUE Christ, sitting at the right hand of the Father in Heaven.

I don't believe that Jesus has necessarily a warm feeling in his heart when people celebrate his "birthday" with all this holiday cheer. Perhaps he isn't smiling down and saying "Merry Christmas too!"

Luke 12:35- 48.
35 "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them.  38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! 39 But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. 40 You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour." 41 Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?" 42 And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing. 44 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 45 But if that servant says to himself, `My master is delayed in coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and  drink and get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him, and put him  with the unfaithful. 47 And that servant who knew his master's will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating. 48 But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be  required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.

Our celebration is not yet. Our wedding feast with the Lamb has not started. Let us continue to walk with our eyes set on Jesus, and seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness.

Romans 12: 2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.


Let us know what is true worship, that will be pleasing and accepting to Christ. Let us truly celebrate Jesus for who He is, and in the right seasons. Perhaps we should hold off on the joy. Because our Jesus has not come back for us yet.


Merry Christmas.